[ The sound of that particular voice doesn't fail to stiffen Dion's posture with a mechanical immediacy. His shoulders square and he stands all the straighter, though one would be pressed to accuse him of slouching. Odin may be no enemy here, he may mean no harm, but that old, adversarial tension is all but set into his bones.
Yet it doesn't find its echo in his expression when he turns to regard Odin. Only calm is to be found there, if not the slightest edge of wry humor about the corners of his mouth. Beings as formidable as they, meant for war, relegated to raising flags and collecting pinecones. ]
Perhaps she means to humble us, or has a particular sense of humor.
[ He muses, pausing a moment to shake leaves from his wheat-blond hair. They shiver loose and drift to the dirt on which they stand. ]
You've more experience with her missions than I.
[ It's as much an acknowledgement of seniority as Dion sees fit to yield. Odin and Ramuh have been here longer than him. He knows not precisely how long, and he'd had his theory as to why, but Joshua's fleeting presence and his words had called that into question.
Regardless of how they come to be here, the reality of it remains. ]
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Yet it doesn't find its echo in his expression when he turns to regard Odin. Only calm is to be found there, if not the slightest edge of wry humor about the corners of his mouth. Beings as formidable as they, meant for war, relegated to raising flags and collecting pinecones. ]
Perhaps she means to humble us, or has a particular sense of humor.
[ He muses, pausing a moment to shake leaves from his wheat-blond hair. They shiver loose and drift to the dirt on which they stand. ]
You've more experience with her missions than I.
[ It's as much an acknowledgement of seniority as Dion sees fit to yield. Odin and Ramuh have been here longer than him. He knows not precisely how long, and he'd had his theory as to why, but Joshua's fleeting presence and his words had called that into question.
Regardless of how they come to be here, the reality of it remains. ]