#*selah

[eviji]

❛ who taught you how to do that? ❜ - for balma

"You don't know him."

[eviji]

[ shrug ] sender overexaggerates a shrug to show receiver they don't know what's going on - to elfgar

always accepting.

These lodgings provided by the sisters are not welcoming, but not absent of gesture. By contrast: the Veranese stall him in their kitchens, demanding him to take sweets, news, songs, stories, on long days, when a short task is made longer by the strain of each insistent hospitality.

The sect having higher business is its own hospitality: they have fed him; in return, he has kept himself separate.

Now: he sees the body at her feet. It is damply unconscious, half-drowned, and unresponsive.

“You better bring him in.”

You means he. He approaches her with his workbag in another silent gesture, tapping his own shoulder to indicate how he wants her to carry it. He then, slowly, crosses the gap, putting it onto their shoulder rather than pass it. The hands hesitate, he watches her, until he is certain her back can take the weight. Then, he attends and heaves the body up, and they start to walk.