Chapter 78: Port Bellgrave
The lanky man whose mouth Orodan had a hand upon was on the younger side, less a man and more a boy, possibly a few years younger than Orodan’s own biological age. Tall for a young boy too, made it easy to mistake him for a grown man at first glance. And he looked exceedingly wary and more than a bit intimidated, his hand gripping the small gun on his belt. He was dressed in some sort of gray coat whose original color wasn’t meant to be so worn. And the strings and twine were practically coming off, with plenty of patchwork quilts and repairs made throughout.
Orodan could sense a strange bit of power coursing through these patchwork bits of quilt in the boy’s coat, yet for now he didn’t pry. Though he couldn’t help but shake the feeling that he’d seen this young lad somewhere in an earlier loop of his.
And while he was merely covering the boy’s mouth, it didn’t help matters that Orodan’s hand was the size of his head. Couldn’t blame him for being intimidated.
“Now, I know how this must look, but I assure you we come in peace,” Orodan declared. “You’re free to go and won’t be harmed.”
“If you delivered that with less of an unsettling smile on your face, it might help the matter,” Talricto said.
Orodan took the insincere attempt at a reassuring smile off his face, and their not-captive grumbled something inaudible.
“Hmm… maybe you should try smiling again. I forget how antagonistic your regular face is.”
“My face is not antagonistic…”
And even if it was, she could blame his mother for passing it onto him.