"With company like this, how could I ever be elsewise?" he asks, lifting his glass with a grin. Then, slightly less glibly but no less wryly, he goes on: "There's much here to keep me quite content. Delicious gossip to fill my letters. Strange creatures from other worlds that could well be a threat, and whose odd qualities are more than enough to stir the interest of some in the south."
Yes, there's much in Riftwatch to keep a spy in employment, most certainly. Many odd folks in need of surveillance.
He surprises himself a little, though, when he feels compelled to offer some oblique comfort to Silver. "And you're certainly not alone, you know, in that funny thing of yours. Most people, when you ask them what their home is, they'll give an answer that is certainly not the place where they've spent the most time. Why, I still call myself a Rutyer of Dragonmount, for all that I was a fresh-faced youth when I left and never have I set foot there since."
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Date: 2021-05-19 07:19 pm (UTC)Yes, there's much in Riftwatch to keep a spy in employment, most certainly. Many odd folks in need of surveillance.
He surprises himself a little, though, when he feels compelled to offer some oblique comfort to Silver. "And you're certainly not alone, you know, in that funny thing of yours. Most people, when you ask them what their home is, they'll give an answer that is certainly not the place where they've spent the most time. Why, I still call myself a Rutyer of Dragonmount, for all that I was a fresh-faced youth when I left and never have I set foot there since."