“I shan’t let a man who takes care of his animal’s needs before his own go hungry. Join me?” was the sound of his salvation. A soothing voice, coming from the miniature sized wood elf who's buisiness Tiber stuck his nose in. He appraised the blond Mer with a quizzical look, and after a moment he had to smile at her generosity.
In this day and age, how difficult was it for a person to trust anyone, let alone offer a kind hand and empty their own pockets to fill another's belly. What goes around, comes around, was the popular saying and the Imperial saw that his selfless care of his companion had more or less had a hand in the woman's charitable act.
Kraven swallowed, scratched the back of his head and nodded to Maenlorn before taking a seat across from the young woman. From there he was given a better view of the lady before him; she was young as he was, perhaps, and judging by her race alone and the buckskin shoes that covered her feet, he guessed she might have been a hunter or something. He didn't see a bow, however, and so he dismissed this notion.
An adventurer, he reckoned. Looks to be the sort. Probably makes good coin. Tamika wine sure isn't cheap.
Maenlorn had placed the food he ordered on the table, and Kraven broke a loaf of his bread with the meat within and gave it to Tiber, who wolfed it down with a single bite. The young man turned to the woman before him.
"Thank you, for your help. You didn't need to pay for this food. Really, you didn't. I either forgot my coinpurse or someone's unwanted hands did. I will repay you, I promise." He said, and began eating. "Tiber will too, won't you boy?"
The wolf seemed to ignore his master's words, and focused more on the last piece of crumbs that littered the ground. Kraven sighed, and tapped his fingers on the table. "Nice place, this. Never ran into trouble here. Aside from me not being able to pay for my food." He cleared his throat, and tapped his foot now as he slung his wooden bow behind his chair.
You're small, he wanted to say. I've never seen one so small.
Without anything special to say, he had to ask the basic question born out of genuine curiosity. "What brings you here?"
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And yet I am, and live—like vapours tossed. I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below—above the vaulted sky.”
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