They are... quiet, in the way he has come to think of that term when around a Vessel.
Perhaps he has miscommunicated.
Or they have changed their mind, and. (This thought is cut off too late, and a deep-cutting unpleasantness twists through his chest. Lemm resists the urge to return his hand to it.)
No. They nod, then. They were just thinking, their mind wanders, he reminds himself of this resolutely. If he doesn't have faith in their answers, past and present, he might as well give up now and throw all his hard work into the Waterways.
But that hesitancy... It's going to sit ill with him for a while if he doesn't clarify.
"...You've no obligation, of course. It was just a request. I'm not very good at making it sound like one, but that's all it was."
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Date: 2023-02-15 08:05 am (UTC)Perhaps he has miscommunicated.
Or they have changed their mind, and. (This thought is cut off too late, and a deep-cutting unpleasantness twists through his chest. Lemm resists the urge to return his hand to it.)
No. They nod, then. They were just thinking, their mind wanders, he reminds himself of this resolutely. If he doesn't have faith in their answers, past and present, he might as well give up now and throw all his hard work into the Waterways.
But that hesitancy... It's going to sit ill with him for a while if he doesn't clarify.
"...You've no obligation, of course. It was just a request. I'm not very good at making it sound like one, but that's all it was."