How strange and entirely accidental, that Bastien’s approach might somehow echo that of a known successful Ellis-befriender.
He considers the toast for a moment, so tempted he leans forward a few degrees in preparation for moving his arm to take it. But then he shakes his head. A fellow with Ellis’ shoulders surely needs all of his own food. And once Bastien swaps his cooled spoonful for porridge fresh from the bowl, it isn’t so cold.
“I think... in Orlais the same story would have been written so the Cetus was not a freak accident. Someone would have insulted it first, so it dragged them away on purpose, or one of them would have wanted to hitch a ride to see where it lived. We do not have many popular stories about things happening to people just because sometimes things happen—unless someone has set out to make that point, and then they have to make it five times in the same story to make sure we notice.“
He hasn’t eaten his new slightly-warmer spoonful of breakfast yet, and he isn’t actually trying to go hungry for a comedy bit, so he does that now.
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He considers the toast for a moment, so tempted he leans forward a few degrees in preparation for moving his arm to take it. But then he shakes his head. A fellow with Ellis’ shoulders surely needs all of his own food. And once Bastien swaps his cooled spoonful for porridge fresh from the bowl, it isn’t so cold.
“I think... in Orlais the same story would have been written so the Cetus was not a freak accident. Someone would have insulted it first, so it dragged them away on purpose, or one of them would have wanted to hitch a ride to see where it lived. We do not have many popular stories about things happening to people just because sometimes things happen—unless someone has set out to make that point, and then they have to make it five times in the same story to make sure we notice.“
He hasn’t eaten his new slightly-warmer spoonful of breakfast yet, and he isn’t actually trying to go hungry for a comedy bit, so he does that now.