[ Nina laughs. ] And I'm not much of a storyteller.
[ This is a lie. But whether or not Balthier is telling her the truth - and she believes that he is - he's returning a bit of his past for her own, and she can deal with that very well... the making of an ally... a friend. She glances at him sideways. ]
I'm not quite sure how to begin. I suppose -- I should tell you Matthias is a Fjerdan, from one of the countries at war with my own. And he is a drüskelle, a member of a "holy order" devoted to hunting down and killing Grisha.
[ Which is what she is, as he may have cause to recall. ]
It's not quite fair to say we met when he captured me, because I was doing quite well against the other four drüskelle until he threw a bola around me through a window from a building across the street. His heartbeat was so steady, I had no reason to think there was another one there. So I suppose really we met when he was clapping me in irons in the belly of a Fjerdan ship. It was far less romantic than it sounds.
Let's keep going, then! I'll try to hit up the plotting post for the event tonight. ^^
[ This is a lie. But whether or not Balthier is telling her the truth - and she believes that he is - he's returning a bit of his past for her own, and she can deal with that very well... the making of an ally... a friend. She glances at him sideways. ]
I'm not quite sure how to begin. I suppose -- I should tell you Matthias is a Fjerdan, from one of the countries at war with my own. And he is a drüskelle, a member of a "holy order" devoted to hunting down and killing Grisha.
[ Which is what she is, as he may have cause to recall. ]
It's not quite fair to say we met when he captured me, because I was doing quite well against the other four drüskelle until he threw a bola around me through a window from a building across the street. His heartbeat was so steady, I had no reason to think there was another one there. So I suppose really we met when he was clapping me in irons in the belly of a Fjerdan ship. It was far less romantic than it sounds.