04-08-2020, 06:19 PM
[font=trebuchet ms]He was here for a visit, he said, with a smile that she might have found disarming were she about four years younger. Still, her lack of interest probably had more to do with how off she'd been feeling lately- logically, she figured it was best to hear him out. He might have something of use in his satchels, or he might have useful information.
That pretense evaporated the moment the words "everlasting soul" left his mouth. This was an evangelist, then. Rin had encountered a couple of different evangelists over the years, and none of those experiences had been at all enlightening or pleasant- in fact, she was pretty sure all of them had been cultists in varying levels of disguise. Maybe the god(s) he had come to speak of were genuinely benevolent, unlike the ones that currently plagued Elysium, but she couldn't muster up the energy to pretend not to be irritated.
Still, she kept a straight face, even as her ears swiveled back and her eyes narrowed slightly. "Well, go ahead and tell us," she said, resisting the urge to tack on a sarcastic "o messenger" at the end. If there was a religious group rising up in these lands, she wanted to know, especially if it posed a potential threat. If his words were harmless, then she'd let him go on until he eventually got tired and went away; if not, it would be a simple matter to get all the necessary information, then show him the door.
That pretense evaporated the moment the words "everlasting soul" left his mouth. This was an evangelist, then. Rin had encountered a couple of different evangelists over the years, and none of those experiences had been at all enlightening or pleasant- in fact, she was pretty sure all of them had been cultists in varying levels of disguise. Maybe the god(s) he had come to speak of were genuinely benevolent, unlike the ones that currently plagued Elysium, but she couldn't muster up the energy to pretend not to be irritated.
Still, she kept a straight face, even as her ears swiveled back and her eyes narrowed slightly. "Well, go ahead and tell us," she said, resisting the urge to tack on a sarcastic "o messenger" at the end. If there was a religious group rising up in these lands, she wanted to know, especially if it posed a potential threat. If his words were harmless, then she'd let him go on until he eventually got tired and went away; if not, it would be a simple matter to get all the necessary information, then show him the door.
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