She even bows to them back! If their day had been bad before this, then it would have immediately improved. Their head tilts slightly to follow the sweep of Lup's ears, somewhat distracted by the motion; they're vaguely reminded of antenna, which only endears this stranger to them more.
They notice that little hiccup in her voice and - they don't know and won't ask but they think they understand, a little, what might be causing her to stumble.
(They had tried to follow her, to keep track of her, but they were too sick themselves to do so, too exhausted. She came back, lacking a voice like them, and the defeat and guilt of realisation and grief had sat in their chest.
Ren had died alone and they had failed to be by her side.)
They don't ask. They simply brush over it, silently, and write.
good she has family deserves to be loved
The Knight's view on themselves is...difficult and strange and yet to be determined, but they know that Ren, gentle and kind and sweet and precocious, shouldn't be by herself, should be surrounded with people who love her. It's good to know she has that.
They ponder Lup's next question for a moment. How to describe it in as few words as possible, in a way that conveys quick understanding?
both was not named named myself after ideals after what i want to be
(They can almost hear the faded ghost of a warrior long dead, his empty shell of a body left among light. "A Knight strives not only to protect the land and its people, but the hopes and dreams of the kingdom," says Galien, somewhere in the back of their mind. Just a memory.)
There is a slight hesitation, and then they write:
after sibling
It's...important. To convey that. It is only one of the reasons they named themselves the way they did, but it is a terribly important one.
The more people they tell, the more their sibling will be known. Even here, in a strange place. There is life of a sort, granted by memory. It is all they can do for them.
no subject
They notice that little hiccup in her voice and - they don't know and won't ask but they think they understand, a little, what might be causing her to stumble.
(They had tried to follow her, to keep track of her, but they were too sick themselves to do so, too exhausted. She came back, lacking a voice like them, and the defeat and guilt of realisation and grief had sat in their chest.
Ren had died alone and they had failed to be by her side.)
They don't ask. They simply brush over it, silently, and write.
good she has family
deserves to be loved
The Knight's view on themselves is...difficult and strange and yet to be determined, but they know that Ren, gentle and kind and sweet and precocious, shouldn't be by herself, should be surrounded with people who love her. It's good to know she has that.
They ponder Lup's next question for a moment. How to describe it in as few words as possible, in a way that conveys quick understanding?
both
was not named
named myself
after ideals
after what i want to be
(They can almost hear the faded ghost of a warrior long dead, his empty shell of a body left among light. "A Knight strives not only to protect the land and its people, but the hopes and dreams of the kingdom," says Galien, somewhere in the back of their mind. Just a memory.)
There is a slight hesitation, and then they write:
after sibling
It's...important. To convey that. It is only one of the reasons they named themselves the way they did, but it is a terribly important one.
The more people they tell, the more their sibling will be known. Even here, in a strange place. There is life of a sort, granted by memory. It is all they can do for them.