Indrid takes Ferno's hand in his and freezes, his blood running cold. Ironic, since he was in contact with a fire elemental. What he saw made him dizzy. Several paths criss-crossed this way and that, overlapping one another but never intersecting. There were an impossible number of futures; ones where he lived, ones where he died, most where he did himself in. Indrid found it hard to focus solely on this Ferno's future, but managed it in the end.
Eyes blinked behind red tinted glasses as he reeled slightly, pulling his hand away. Indrid was shaking slightly, trying to comprehend what he'd just seen.
"Be careful who you trust in your fight against this so called king of yours. Someone is aiming to tear apart your operation from the inside and many of those you care for immensely will die from it." ((@pine-guards-chosen-one ))
The palm reading had been a whim, after a bit of drunken egging on from his closest comrades over one too many drinks. Ferno, stone sober himself, had just been grateful for a few minutes away from the carousing--and from the temptation therein. He wasn’t sure what he’d expected. Maybe something about a long life line, a dark stranger in his future, the typical kind of stuff. He’d make a dumb joke about hoping the dark stranger had a nice pair of tits, and he’d laugh, pay the guy, and go on with his night.
He hadn’t really been expecting the way the guy flinched the second he took his hand. It didn’t seem to be part of a bit. Ferno blinked, head tilting as he watched him. ‘You, uh... okay there, buddy?’
His answer was the sudden release of his hand, and the reading of a fortune that nearly made Ferno himself freeze. For a moment, his expression shifted to one of suspicion. Not one to believe in fortune tellers, he wondered if this was someone’s way of relaying information to him. He could’ve written it off. Probably should have. And yet...
Ferno glanced back over his shoulder, in the direction of where his best officers were still drinking the night away, chatting up ladies, trading stories.
‘... Eh, guess that’s not too surprising,’ he said, somewhat distractedly, rubbing the back of his neck. ‘Probably never been an uprising that didn’t hafta deal with that. An’ it fits the old goat’s MO, I’d say.’ He smirked. ‘If he does have an informant, suppose it’s a sign he sees us as a threat. Heh.’
But that did raise the most important question though, didn’t it?
Assuming it was true. Assuming there were people in his ranks he couldn’t trust. Assuming lives depended on him handling that decisively.
What would Ferno, as the head of this resistance, do about it?
His expression was... pensive. Not necessarily conflicted, but thoughtful, as he weighed over the dilemma carefully.
‘Welp,’ he said, shrugging his shoulders. ‘I’ll just have to figure out who it is then. And then...’ he laughed, ‘we’ll all beat the snot out of ‘em. And once that’s done--I’ll make ‘em listen to reason.’ There was humor behind the words, but there was an understanding behind those eyes--that it would never be that simple. That nothing in this world was ever that simple. If what the fortune teller told him was true, Ferno would have to make the call. And he would make it, if he had to.
But until then, he had to have hope. He had to believe--with absolute certainty--in his way of doing things, in the decisions he made, in the future he wanted to build up for their people.
Kill or be killed was not going to govern their world anymore. He would tear Asgore down from his throne, and show through example that it could be done. And if he would do that, it would have to start now.
‘Thanks for the advice, stranger,’ he said, getting up from the seat. ‘C’mon--why don’tcha come have a drink with me an’ the boys, eh?’