Darras takes this to heart, as easily as he takes the position of second to Bastien's concerned sympathizer. Here as an agent of Riftwatch, he listens with patience--and nods, gravely, at the end.]
The funny bit is, his grandfather is still alive.
[He shoots Velez a smile--charming, a little teasing. More amused than concerned, the sot of man who would listen to an overworked someone claiming to have seen an otherwise invisible dragon and tell all his mates about it later.]
He's right all the same. Who is this Katrine, when she's at home? An old colleague? A friend? That might help us work out why you'd be seeing her, in this place. Not that it's her. Could be any old thing or grandfather.
[Velez hesitates, clearly uncertain. She looks between the two men before her, both of who have been so charming. Swallows, somewhat nervously.
I suppose, she allows, with grace, I might have been mistaken. Katrine was-- a friend.
There is a valley of a pause there. A chasm. One that any manner of speculation might fall into, or drawn out of, even. Darras feels his eyebrows raise.]
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Darras takes this to heart, as easily as he takes the position of second to Bastien's concerned sympathizer. Here as an agent of Riftwatch, he listens with patience--and nods, gravely, at the end.]
The funny bit is, his grandfather is still alive.
[He shoots Velez a smile--charming, a little teasing. More amused than concerned, the sot of man who would listen to an overworked someone claiming to have seen an otherwise invisible dragon and tell all his mates about it later.]
He's right all the same. Who is this Katrine, when she's at home? An old colleague? A friend? That might help us work out why you'd be seeing her, in this place. Not that it's her. Could be any old thing or grandfather.
[Velez hesitates, clearly uncertain. She looks between the two men before her, both of who have been so charming. Swallows, somewhat nervously.
I suppose, she allows, with grace, I might have been mistaken. Katrine was-- a friend.
There is a valley of a pause there. A chasm. One that any manner of speculation might fall into, or drawn out of, even. Darras feels his eyebrows raise.]