They've left him alone in his cell.
He can't really be said to be lucid but he has very acute instincts for when there's someone and when he's alone - it's the last of his senses to depart him - and he's alone.
And then suddenly he isn't.
They've left him alone in his cell.
He can't really be said to be lucid but he has very acute instincts for when there's someone and when he's alone - it's the last of his senses to depart him - and he's alone.
And then suddenly he isn't.
I mean, yes, but I wasn't expecting there to be any decent people who were also elves, and I definitely wasn't expecting any decent people who were also elves to live there.
I almost want to meet them.
I said I'd stop by occasionally. Decent people come in all types, and I don't know if these elves are actually shittier than the city type. She hates the city, which, excellent taste there.
Mm.
Still don't tell them you know a kobold. Even if they really are okay themselves I don't want to trust them not to tell the others.
I can go back and ask any questions you have. She knew it was awful, just couldn't do anything about it. I guess.
Squeeze. Sorry. I'm sure it sucks to be reminded, and to learn it was all for absolutely no reason...
...not as much as you think? I barely remember the war, I hatched during it, most of what I've seen is what came after, which is - still bad, but less directly about them. But I grew up on the idea that elves are all monsters, it's hard to figure out how to deal with the idea of one that isn't.
Yeah, I know that, but it was safer to think of them that way. I'm not saying I like the result here, but it helped keep me alive to even see this result.
What exactly would have gone wrong if most kobolds thought that elves were mostly shit with one or two decent ones?
For most kobolds, not much. But I might well have gone and tried to figure out how to talk to them, and most likely gotten myself killed. That happened, in the first few years of the war - Speakers are prone to doing that kind of thing, it's part of why there are so few of us now compared to what there were.
I'm glad you're alive but if it's a chance you would have taken if you had accurate information...
I would still have been dead? It isn't very likely that I'd've run into the exactly one elf who might not try to kill me on sight.
She sighs. I'm not being fair. I'll need a couple days before I can be, I think.
And she hugs him and brings them home, and when she makes her regular visit to check in with Maitimo a few hours later, she's a little distant, thinking about it.
I think I'd panic a lot internally if someone I knew had an orc as a friend even if the orc had somehow not sworn. Wouldn't be fair, but -
Yeah, exactly. Tyelkormo says they're actually better than just neutral, opposed the war and want to help us recover, but it's hard to believe it.
I mean, I didn't think they were? I thought they were all dangerous and probably incomprehensible, but that's not the same thing.