For a moment, Ozen merely watched the small robot. Then, a soft sigh, robbed of its sound by a tight press of lips. Ozen’s gaze fell away from that wide-eyed face and once again cast to the fire. Her hand moved to reach for the mug. However, it stalled, and hovered in the air for a moment, the slightest twitch of digits before she set it down in her lap.
She was too sober to speak of Lyza, but the wine was not nearly as potent as she’d need to loosen her tongue. Not that doing so around a child was a good idea. Who knew what a doll would blabber once it got the chance?
“If you can recall her, she must be on her merry way to the very bottom.” Ozen muttered to herself, the slightest hint of bitterness in the grumble of her throat. “I don’t know what you’ve heard, but my relationship with that woman, as it had been prior to her Last Dive, wasn’t on the best of terms. She’d ditched me for a dumb face, so I have nothing to say of her. You can read about her exploits in any of the mass volumes dedicated her legendary penchant for breaking records set by her predecessors. I’m in no mood for glorifying her. If you’re so curious, ask her spawn. She’d know the most about her mother’s accomplishments.”
The Aubade put a hand to his chin, rubbing it gently for a moment as he turned away from Ozen and looked into the softly crackling fire. He’d worded that rather poorly it seemed, he knew he could get that sort of information easily compared to what he was asking the white whistle right now.
° - Well...I don’t think that’d get me anywhere. I’m not really worried about the things that she’s done, but more how she was doing them. I’m interested in who Lyza was as a person, what about her that let her face this bottomless hell with such confidence, not as a white whistle or even a delver. There was more to her than that, more than just the things she could do. Since you were her mentor, companion, and went on deep descents with her, I think you would know the most about what made Lyza the way she was. What made her capable of doing all that. -
Reg hoped he had made his intent with these questions a bit more clear, and that Ozen would entertain his burning curiousity, he needed to know why he would have been sent up from the bottom of the Abyss, if he even came from wherever that was. Lyza could have gone even deeper, for all he knew.
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