- nod.

(She's such a dumbass. They could have had a conversation and then she had to go say stupid things again. She's not sure what's wrong with Erastil but probably something is.)

"Maybe I'd have felt differently if Shelyn was more popular where I grew up, I dunno," she says, because she's an idiot who can't shut up even when she really obviously should.

"She's kinda frowned upon in Osirion, too. Love, you know, not really the sort of thing you should use to make decisions, if you don't want them to be stupid decisions."

"Yeah. Sort of on the impractical side."

     I'm lucky it's one of the few things that's more important to you than trying to be practical, then.

Shut up, pendant.

"So are we going into town, then?"

"Yeah, I guess we better."

She heads into town. And she'll stop talking, unless he talks first.

He can't really think of anything to say.

Then it's going to be a quiet walk.

She heads into town and tries to look vaguely content about everything. She finds a clothing store and repeats lines that her pendant gives her. She buys clothes. They can change into them in the back. Then she finds a place where you buy carriages to different towns, and buys passage to the town her pendant tells her to, and steps in and draws the curtains, and by this point she is moderately proud of herself for not screaming at any point instead of vacantly telling everyone she interacts with that the festival was a great blessing from Landru and that she is very grateful that the Body provides for all of its needs.

He tries to memorize some phrases but his accent's probably terrible. 

"How far does the pendant think it is, to wherever we're going?"

"It says probably most of the day to the town we're heading to today. And then we'll have to stop to find work."

"Okay. Should I be practicing the language or something."

"I don't know it, I'm just casting tongues. I guess maybe the pendant can teach you. - really I should give you the ring and I should just be using tongues, at least then you'll understand things when you need to - "

She takes her ring off and hands it to him.

He takes it. "Thanks."

"Mhmm."

"Are we - doing the thing again where - 

I'm not mad at you about anything."

"I guess that's good."

"I'm - also not mad at you? Just - every time I talk to you I make you sadder, so - "

"Oh. - no, that wasn't - that was entirely my own fault. You were perfectly right about everything and I just - had been stupider than I'd noticed."

She folds her hands in her lap very carefully and doesn't fidget with anything at all, even though she really really wants to focus even a little on anything else.

"Well you still seemed pretty sad."

"Yes. But - because you were right. If you hadn't been right I wouldn't have been sad."

"That - does not make a lot of sense to me but okay."

"Good, then. We're good?"

- she looks really confused. Like, she really wants to say yes, but they are so obviously not good right now that she cannot actually bring herself to say it, even though it is obviously the right answer, because it's - well, wrong.

"I - honestly have no idea what you think I was right about, here."

"I was - spinning this whole self-indulgent story where it was very important and significant how I felt about you even though I didn't plan to marry you and everyone I knew had told me that I was being stupid and should cut it out and it just - actually didn't matter - and they were right but I guess I had to hear it from you to actually take it to heart."