The Road to Tullybrook

Sae didn’t run, though grand-uncle Eloise would have called her a fool girl for staying where she stood, though she always thought he just liked calling others fools. The ship turning to dust then turning itself back into a ship again did certainly give the wild elf a bit of a shock, even if you couldn’t quite tell by how quickly she stepped towards the vessel to give it a once over. It was certainly the ship alright, and if felt as solid as one should be when she gave it a tap with her knuckles, though hard to say what she would have thought about the whole thing if it had collapsed into a pile of dust and splinters at her tapping. It didn’t, so instead she took a step back resting her hands on her hips.

Never had much of an eye for magic myself, but this bit of work would give the wilding things past Snagtooth a run for their coin I’d say.” She said, looking back over her shoulder to Rally. Had the little one said what they were heading to Tully for? Some prodigy looking to sharpen themselves at the schools there? Rally certainly seemed like a dry sponge when it came to knowledge anyway. Sae turned her gaze to Viv then to Abryxia who both rather helpfully seemed quite as taken aback by all this as she did. Be more of a shock if they weren’t, Sae supposed.

Would the tower be as easy a job to put back together, or would you need another worm or two?” Fool her, perhaps, for thinking that the boat had been easy, but it didn’t seem like Rally was winded at all by the effort. Sae dusted away that bit of concern by patting some dust off her hips.

Ah, did the innkeep happen to say where their jails where?” This she addressed back to Viv.
 
Oh.

There were those looks again.

Rally knew those looks. The wonder, the horror, the ducking out of the way, the screaming - usually there was screaming. This time there was not, but there was a lot of the other stuff. They stepped back a bit, and rather wished that they could turn invisible, but there weren't any other worms around and everyone else nearby had bones-

-and might have been their friends.

Rally was not sure if that was the case, or if it had been the case. Those were not the same thing, at all. They pulled the brim of the hat down, quickly, keeping their face out of view at least, tucking their hands up in their sleeves. Maybe they needed an even bigger hat, one that could hide all of them, except for their boots peeking out at the bottom.

Wilding things, Sae had said, and fortunately Rally's frown was hidden under the hat. She wasn't screaming, though. That was... that was something. A sigh escaped the hat, and Rally wished that they hadn't let it go so easily, because that sort of thing drew attention.

"I... I...
more worms. Or, something.
"
The hat indicated a shaking of the head beneath it. "But you can't do that, you can't, then everyone else wants you to do it and wants to know why you didn't before and why you don't make it better and there's, there's so many things and not so many worms and then it starts to be, to be. Not worms."

They retreated back, a little bit further - not very much, because the hat did not really have anywhere else for them to go.

"...Please can we just say we don't know what happened, and I'll never do it again, I promise-"
 
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