[ Her feelings about this telepathy would have to be set aside for now. This was a time it really would be useful to have for lack of any other means of communication. It would be too much for her to maintain two telepathic conversations at once. She'd only barely mastered the technique. A simple text report would do. If he wanted to reply, she would get back to him when she could.
I've encountered McGillis Fareed in the forest. He's taken the form of a wolf and we are discussing the truce you mentioned. I'll tell you about it at dinner.
[ Receiving this message throws Gaelio. Presently seeing to his assigned duty of fishing, he nearly drops the rod, head swiveling back toward the trees. As though Julieta and the wolf would conveniently be near.
Even with that evening in the rain and the room, with the uprooting and shredding of his resolve, with friend hanging heavy between them, Gaelio cannot be confident of McGillis's mind. Though he believes the man would act only to preserve truce, and thus must be wolf out of caution (not knowing how rash Julieta might be), to approach in that way could be read hostile.
For Julieta, devoted to an enemy of McGillis's who had no reason to waver, it might be enough.
The message reads more prudent, but Gaelio cannot be at ease. She's only just begun practice with her power. It should not come to that, and he would not demean her by advising that she take care, but... ]
I hope for a boring story. If you'd like to see me sooner, say the word.
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I've encountered McGillis Fareed in the forest. He's taken the form of a wolf and we are discussing the truce you mentioned. I'll tell you about it at dinner.
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Even with that evening in the rain and the room, with the uprooting and shredding of his resolve, with friend hanging heavy between them, Gaelio cannot be confident of McGillis's mind. Though he believes the man would act only to preserve truce, and thus must be wolf out of caution (not knowing how rash Julieta might be), to approach in that way could be read hostile.
For Julieta, devoted to an enemy of McGillis's who had no reason to waver, it might be enough.
The message reads more prudent, but Gaelio cannot be at ease. She's only just begun practice with her power. It should not come to that, and he would not demean her by advising that she take care, but... ]
I hope for a boring story. If you'd like to see me sooner, say the word.
[ That is, if she has need, he'll hasten to her.
He knows roughly where she'd set up. ]