The secondary voice broke him from his musings, a startled twitch turning him in the direction the voice hailed.
She thought that he was talking to her.
As one would predictably do when an individual was speaking with only their lingering presence hovering around to hear it. Because it would be an oddity for someone to be talking to himself, as he appeared to be doing. That was a.... difficult scenario to recover from! Now he would have to play the part she assigned and.... and act like he had been talking to her.
Was that the right way of handling it?
He couldn’t very well say that he’d been talking to himself.
More accurately, talking to his ‘unseen’ companion, but that was an entirely different level of oddities he was not yet ready to embrace.
What wasn’t so odd a thing was for him to be misunderstood. Frequently. But it hadn’t made reversing the situation any easier for him. He was so awkward... so unfamiliar...
And as smart as he was, he wasn’t always quick on his feet!
Gather his wits, push forth his courage! He could do this. He had to do it. It had been his decision to wander as he was. The first decision he had made for himself in what seemed to be... forever. So... now that he wielded that decision and carried it through, he had to face what consequences came as a result of it.
He was so scared he was so scared he was so scared.
Adolin would find a way to turn it all around, charming his way right into the heart of his lady companions.
True, his brother was not the greatest resource to use with his present record, but he was so much better with his words than he was personally. At least, he thought so.
Now he’d fallen into an unnatural silence
And now he was the one who was staring.
Oooooooh storms..... Strike him down.
“HELLO!” He shouted, the volume of his voice climbing higher than it should. He spun to face the lady, arms held steady, back straight, uniform impeccably styled and pressed. “I’ve come from far away! For training!” ... yeah, that was a good route to take. Just... totally ignore his snafu in favor of.... something else! Training was a pretty generic sort of thing to pose! People could take that and translate it however they wished!
