illirica
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She seemed human, the woman who had come to greet them. Corin felt that the word seemed might be doing a lot of work, there, but then again, she had also heard the same phrase applied to her sister, usually after she'd slaughtered everything in her path.
Silah was human, in Corin's mind, but she sometimes wondered about everyone else - and she was wondering what this woman was, in her own mind. She didn't seem that old, either, maybe Corin or Silah's age. The inside of the Leaky Servo seemed more like a scrap heap than anything else, a mishmash of spare parts and spare people, with tables jammed in amongst cables and bits of machinery she couldn't guess at the nature of.
"I pray we remain together. And everyone else prays my sister remains with us as well." Silah was answering the woman's question - Corin hadn't heard her ask one, but maybe she had just been distracted. Apparently she wasn't being silent any more, but she was being a little bit self-deprecatory, or perhaps it was merely meant as a jest. Usually it came off as the latter, but Corin knew her sister well enough to be aware that there was something of the former in there as well, always. Silah knew what she was, and what she had done - she just didn't think about it much, because either she was doing it or she was thinking about the gods' absence.
If they were with her all the time, now, though, what was she going to be like? Would she still be Corin's same sister? Could you miss someone who was standing only a meter away?
Corin already knew the answer to that one - she had known it for twenty years. She looked around again, more as an excuse to find something else to think about, and returned her attention to the woman. "What is this place? I expected to find more souls in here. Or... at least, more people..."
Silah was human, in Corin's mind, but she sometimes wondered about everyone else - and she was wondering what this woman was, in her own mind. She didn't seem that old, either, maybe Corin or Silah's age. The inside of the Leaky Servo seemed more like a scrap heap than anything else, a mishmash of spare parts and spare people, with tables jammed in amongst cables and bits of machinery she couldn't guess at the nature of.
"I pray we remain together. And everyone else prays my sister remains with us as well." Silah was answering the woman's question - Corin hadn't heard her ask one, but maybe she had just been distracted. Apparently she wasn't being silent any more, but she was being a little bit self-deprecatory, or perhaps it was merely meant as a jest. Usually it came off as the latter, but Corin knew her sister well enough to be aware that there was something of the former in there as well, always. Silah knew what she was, and what she had done - she just didn't think about it much, because either she was doing it or she was thinking about the gods' absence.
If they were with her all the time, now, though, what was she going to be like? Would she still be Corin's same sister? Could you miss someone who was standing only a meter away?
Corin already knew the answer to that one - she had known it for twenty years. She looked around again, more as an excuse to find something else to think about, and returned her attention to the woman. "What is this place? I expected to find more souls in here. Or... at least, more people..."