Zooke smiles at her. "I am fine." He says. "But it appears your friend has run into trouble in the cave."
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"Hopefully we won't run into anything nasty before we're able to get to a market. Or at least rest." Says Zooke, keeping an eye on the horizon. "I heard something about a tribe of Sand dwelling Lizardmen who live here." He says.
"You could borrow some of my clothes." Zooke says to her.
Zooke pokes his head out of the Princesse's Carriage. "Just doing my royal duty as a court fool." he says. "What happened to you Leaf?"
Zooke points at the skyfish.
Zooke throws a pebble at her head to wake her up.
"I'll try not to." He says. "Being with you is helping, a lot. Being on this adventure, but after a while the sand gets to you. Nothing but sand everywhere."
"I've got family back home. A little sister I never got to see grow up." He says. I... I don't think the pain will ever go away.
"Humans enslaved me, kicked me around and generally treated me like dirt. Kept me in one place and started the bleaching. Quite frankly, I don't care if it's not right." He snaps.
"He was trying to screw you over." Zooke points out.
"I wasn't sure if you were going to be able to haggle him down, so..." he hands her the bag.
Zooke, meanwhile just shrugs a bit and reaches out to help himself to one of the bags. Slight of hand and manages to pocket one.
Well.. we could always just search until we find something. he says.
"I think they've got everything we need at this stand!" He says, leading her to a stand.
"I wonder if they have tanglefoot bags." He says, walking beside his friend.
Zooke nods, then looks at Enall. "That looks painful. He says. "Well, let's go."
Zooke shrugs. "I got nothing else to do really." he says.
Zooke strokes her hair. "You know what makes you different Leaf." He says, smiling down at her. "This." He wipes her tears away and offers her a hanky. "You feel guilty, and that's good. If you didn't, then you'd be no different than the emperor. He delights in his cruelty. You regret yours, your worse moments. You repent for them and they hurt. As long as it hurts when you do things that are wrong, you know that you are on the right path. When it stops hurting, that's when you've lost yourself." He pauses and grins. "That ditz is just plain mean to everyone who isn't herself. She's like that because she's picked up every possible botching and itching that you can think of."
Zooke smiles at her. "They're goblins. We're not expected to get along with them. It's understandable you don't like them. I don't care for them either. I don't see why they needed last rights, they were dumb enough to attack us. They got what was coming to them. But, well some people want to be nice to everyone, even stinky goblins. That's their problem and they've no right telling you how to live. She didn't have any business saying things like that to you."
"Why would you think you're anything like him Leaf? Zooke asks her. "You're a wonderful person.
Zooke grins. "A wizard doesn't let just anyone share his books, does he now?" He says, eating the soup happily.
Zooke points towards the kitchen carriage. "The half-orc probally knows where the meat is."
Zooke reaches down to bet one, and gets a finger bitten for his efforts. "I think we need some ground up meat for them. He says.
Zooke looks down at the kittens. "Can't say I have. I raised a rat once, but I've seen sand kittens and these little guys seem to be near weaning age. But they'll need dead things. Maybe we should ask them what happened to their ma." |