[ The sidelong glance is absorbed in a way that could seem disinterested if not for the fact he was already attentive when it was delivered. Listening. It isn't as though he has never heard such beliefs -- although more and more, they come hindered in qualification, in defeatist backwards circles, in fear -- so much as he is interested in the people they come from.
The 'better part of a decade' has him look down between them, as if the knowledge of that time of freedom has a weight to it. So too, the knowledge that it could be all they get.
He takes the wineskin from her. ]
Perhaps we'll get lucky, [ he says, ] and Nevarra will have us.
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The 'better part of a decade' has him look down between them, as if the knowledge of that time of freedom has a weight to it. So too, the knowledge that it could be all they get.
He takes the wineskin from her. ]
Perhaps we'll get lucky, [ he says, ] and Nevarra will have us.
[ Ha ha. ]