( Sure, he could have stepped into this with a different mindset. Spirits, ghosts, the dead: he's uniquely adapted to speaking with them, coaxing them, commanding. Yet he knows also the pull of it grows too strong; he knows the value of respect for the dead, and this is a case that's puzzled him the way all good mysteries do. He seeks to understand, not to simply make it expedient and simply, and thus he nods to Yelena, tapping a finger against the flute in his waistband, then letting his hand fall away. )
What are you inclined toward, facing her plight?
( He too, not a person who can resist the binds of family; he too more curious as to why Appololol or whatever his name might be wants this bounty from a dead woman, a spirit that doesn't know how to let go.
He wonders if it's more worthwhile to seek a way of amending that hold, if Tykhe would wish it. Not every ghost does, and that grows dangerous, suspecting that yet again, the behemoths of the deathless lords approach, ready to consume. He remembers what one burst of Anurr's sweeping power managed; what the Huntress had managed, in her ride through Taravast, her husband in swift pursuit.
What Matthias might evoke, what Messalina might find reasonable, given only the time to move.
So he studies a ghostly sister, in search of the eyes she doesn't have, and his eyes don't leave her transparent form, considering. )
burial grounds
What are you inclined toward, facing her plight?
( He too, not a person who can resist the binds of family; he too more curious as to why Appololol or whatever his name might be wants this bounty from a dead woman, a spirit that doesn't know how to let go.
He wonders if it's more worthwhile to seek a way of amending that hold, if Tykhe would wish it. Not every ghost does, and that grows dangerous, suspecting that yet again, the behemoths of the deathless lords approach, ready to consume. He remembers what one burst of Anurr's sweeping power managed; what the Huntress had managed, in her ride through Taravast, her husband in swift pursuit.
What Matthias might evoke, what Messalina might find reasonable, given only the time to move.
So he studies a ghostly sister, in search of the eyes she doesn't have, and his eyes don't leave her transparent form, considering. )