She hums amused acceptance, and there's a note of her own silent pride in there, too. The Barge has taught both of them so much.
"The plan is 'everything he knows', which is apparently quite a bit; his library back home rivals the Barge's." There's some downright giddiness in her voice, which is...refreshing. She'd felt so ground down when she came back, and the circumstances did the opposite of helping. Just being in Iris' presence has worked to brighten her, steady her, but there's no denying the new layers of loss and bitterness. "He's jaded. Gentle in the kind of way only people capable of immense brutality can be. Imperious, yeah, but polite about it."
She's quiet, for a moment, not quite hesitant but not quite certain, either. "In some ways he reminds me of Bruce. In others he reminds me of Aslan." With a wryly wistful smile, "He made me promise not to be his warden, so I wouldn't be saddled with a lost cause."
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"The plan is 'everything he knows', which is apparently quite a bit; his library back home rivals the Barge's." There's some downright giddiness in her voice, which is...refreshing. She'd felt so ground down when she came back, and the circumstances did the opposite of helping. Just being in Iris' presence has worked to brighten her, steady her, but there's no denying the new layers of loss and bitterness. "He's jaded. Gentle in the kind of way only people capable of immense brutality can be. Imperious, yeah, but polite about it."
She's quiet, for a moment, not quite hesitant but not quite certain, either. "In some ways he reminds me of Bruce. In others he reminds me of Aslan." With a wryly wistful smile, "He made me promise not to be his warden, so I wouldn't be saddled with a lost cause."