Oh, the same difference as it always does. This one living may give us something we desire, if enough in our debt.
( Not gratitude, he thinks. Awareness of debts settled and gone again, ah? But there, the question, and he asks, feeding leaves to the fires still: )
Those living, or those dead? The dead have perhaps already been called to their differing masters, ( Huntress, Anurr, Beastmaster, and three of them settled with finality before the howling had begun; ) and for the rest, I claim little. Our help, as requested in the near future. I would prefer Taravast not be entirely consumed, one way or another, but my best hope in that is we remain alive, and do not burden this city overmuch longer. Hence my concerns over who is the water pouring.
( A glance to this woman, who is and is not dead and alive at the same moment, the spirit of Hatisse, the failing body of Vannozza. )
no subject
( Not gratitude, he thinks. Awareness of debts settled and gone again, ah? But there, the question, and he asks, feeding leaves to the fires still: )
Those living, or those dead? The dead have perhaps already been called to their differing masters, ( Huntress, Anurr, Beastmaster, and three of them settled with finality before the howling had begun; ) and for the rest, I claim little. Our help, as requested in the near future. I would prefer Taravast not be entirely consumed, one way or another, but my best hope in that is we remain alive, and do not burden this city overmuch longer. Hence my concerns over who is the water pouring.
( A glance to this woman, who is and is not dead and alive at the same moment, the spirit of Hatisse, the failing body of Vannozza. )
The beacon. We seek it, my lady.