no sneer escapes him , unlike the demon the esteemed traveler does not make such sounds . it is more a huff , something that could be laugh if the wind sweeps it into the right direction and lets it echo . it is a sound of open amusement , the messenger remaining unaffected by the insulting notion hurled his way . “not one inch of me is shocked by that dramatic flair of yours ,” is the idle response , all but seconds away from grinning broadly . watching mortals is always one of his favourite past-times , helping them find the right route , granting them entrance where they’d otherwise be denied , let the bolder ones go by undetected when they slip away with something in their hands or pockets . one could even say he is fond of them , but he would deny it ; not many beings have a significant part of his heart or soul , for eternity teaches easily to abstain from it , and the road does the rest . ( he had someone deemed a friend once , a young man who always sang , who taught him the way the god taught him before ) to him , there is not much magic in the connection , but much more of it in the observation and the assistance : a helping hand here and there before he is on his way . being interrupted by others is not on par with what humours him , or delights him in a similar way , and even less so when somebody interrupts him . the man is a story-teller by nature , narrator of fables and tales , advice lining even the most dooming tragedies . and when that somebody strikes a figure similar to a palm tree with badly misted leaves , a ridiculous shade between something copper and darker , he could not even take the culprit seriously. “if you don’t like the story , you can always go , brother . no one keeps you here , least of all me .”