[ His gaze flicks from Bull's good eye to the eyepatch -- he makes eye contact fine, but committing shit to memory means actively paying attention and looking at the person instead of, say, the book he should be shoving back into the backpack.
Qunari live up north, elves are a real thing here (he's wondering if it's the Keebler or the Arwen type), dwarves. No hobbits. ]
What about fairies? Centaurs, talking animals? Oh--questing beasts?
[ Worth a shot. He's handed the bowl and eh takes it, murmuring a polite thank you, and just to pile on questions upon questions in such a short amount of time: ] What's a nug?
Body of a man, bottom half of a horse--really good doctors. Fixed my arm and saved my life.
[ Once he sees Bull eating, he's going to, too. It's not out of fear of it being poisoned, more that he has no idea what cultural norms are here. He's surprised it's not too bad. It's not a good slice of pizza, but you can't win them all.
Holy shit. He didn't realize how hungry he was until now. ]
They're real. Sort of. Different world from where I'm from. [ He presses his lips into a thin line, almost apologetically. ]
Yes. Uh--no. I mean--uh, so I said this stuff wasn't new to me earlier, right? Going to different places. Where I'm from, it's just humans. Place called Earth. Nothing but humans. I didn't find out there was other stuff or places or even that magic existed until I was 23.
[ A bit of a wry smile. ]
Do you know how boring it is to be in a world full of nothing but people like me when there's so much out there?
[He takes another spoonful of the soup, thinking, aware that if he wants this weird unknown mage to get closer to trusting him, he should try and be a little friendlier. He swallows the soup and looks up with a grin - brief, not overdoing the whole friendliness thing, but there long enough to lighten his face a little.]
So, somewhere that would drive me nuts. I'm going to level with you, though, a place where people don't even know magic is a thing is kind of tough to swallow. The fewer people know to look out for it the more out of control it's going to get, you'd think.
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Qunari live up north, elves are a real thing here (he's wondering if it's the Keebler or the Arwen type), dwarves. No hobbits. ]
What about fairies? Centaurs, talking animals? Oh--questing beasts?
[ Worth a shot. He's handed the bowl and eh takes it, murmuring a polite thank you, and just to pile on questions upon questions in such a short amount of time: ] What's a nug?
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[He looks down at his soup for a moment. Then he shrugs - it's food now - and takes a spoonful, speaking around a chewy bit.]
What's a centaur? That anything like your legendary minotaur guys?
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[ Once he sees Bull eating, he's going to, too. It's not out of fear of it being poisoned, more that he has no idea what cultural norms are here. He's surprised it's not too bad. It's not a good slice of pizza, but you can't win them all.
Holy shit. He didn't realize how hungry he was until now. ]
They're real. Sort of. Different world from where I'm from. [ He presses his lips into a thin line, almost apologetically. ]
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[He nods, playing along with the different world thing without complaining too hard about it. For the moment, anyway.]
And where you're from? What kind of stuff have you got there? No centaurs, no qunari - some humans, I guess?
[He nods at Quentin. You never can tell if someone has a little bit of something else in their family tree, but he's at least half human.]
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[ A bit of a wry smile. ]
Do you know how boring it is to be in a world full of nothing but people like me when there's so much out there?
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[He takes another spoonful of the soup, thinking, aware that if he wants this weird unknown mage to get closer to trusting him, he should try and be a little friendlier. He swallows the soup and looks up with a grin - brief, not overdoing the whole friendliness thing, but there long enough to lighten his face a little.]
So, somewhere that would drive me nuts. I'm going to level with you, though, a place where people don't even know magic is a thing is kind of tough to swallow. The fewer people know to look out for it the more out of control it's going to get, you'd think.