Chapter 262: Loaded up and ready to go
"It's almost light. Do you think they are going to stay reforging without sleep?" Greldo asked, looking at the Ganvil sitting on the table.
Coal had alerted him to the other's arrival, and he'd been having a soft conversation ever since.
"Probably," Des said. "Am was pretty upset."
"He didn't seem like someone to get upset easily," Greldo said, thinking back to his interactions with the grumpy Ganvil. He was surprised at how easy it was to talk to Des. Apparently, they were brothers or something similar, but besides the coloration and looks, he didn't see the resemblance.
"Am has always seen himself as the oldest and the one to look after us," Des said, sighing. "Brazardian used that to have him practice and work twice as hard as the rest of us, and I'm sad to say Hal and I were perfectly fine letting him."
"Couldn't you just come with us?" Greldo asked.
Des was quiet for a bit, then sighed again. He'd been doing it a lot since he arrived.
"No. Besides the fact that Brazardian would have a fit, he's not wrong. Our species was nearly wiped out. We need to take any and every precaution to prevent that from happening again."
Greldo wondered what the Ganvil knew about Eluathar and if that colored his opinion. Perhaps he didn't think they had a chance to survive out there?
He might be right, he thought, picturing the massive ports and worlds they had been to. Even if Eluathar was special and had immense potential, it was just one world right now.
One world hidden away, Greldo thought. With dozens or more adjacent worlds to reach.
His keen ears picked up distant footsteps moving towards them. It took him only a moment to recognize Irwin's heavy thud, almost like someone hitting the ground with a mallet.