(cw oblique implied animal harm)
Abel Lazarus “He’s not hurt- I think he just got too tired.”
Mathias sighed but seemed unsurprised. “All right. Thank you.”
Abel Lazarus … Abel flips into the book again- looking to see the last time the bird is mentioned before she dies.
Seems like the last explicit Nazir mention was at their last camp—certainly nothing to imply anything befell him before his owner.
Vinzent Mayer Vinzent isn’t quite sure if he’ll find anything useful, but he does flip the book he is holding on currently, maybe this will tell him more information about this man and therefore more about Jagal, possibly?
As a whole life account, there was plenty of info to take in; if anything, skimming for what was significant was the real problem. Born in Norway (which would explain why the vowels in this book looked like that), went into pharmaceutical studies after some abnormality of his own metabolism inspired interest, took a personal trip to Azgiran for an herb they didn’t export, met a girl named Amira…
If Vinzent’s focusing on Jagal, though, there are plenty of mentions of the subject’s firstborn son—mostly struggles with Jagal’s sensitive disposition at first, but eventually settling into pretty standard father-son things for their setting. Looks like it was Mathias who encouraged him to take up whittling after catching him messing around sharpening sticks.
Quite a bit of book to try and speedread, especially compared to Ibah’s. Whew.
Viper before the girl finally seemed to run out of steam. A shame, really, because she was enjoying her little in-person podcast.
Sorry, Viper! She just kinda realized she’s not gonna be going to the cool falcon hospital ever. It’s fine.
Viper “You really like birds, huh?
Nod! They made so much more sense than people.
Viper Jagal likes birds too, doesn’t he? Do you know what his favourite bird is?”
Ibah seemed a little less enthusiastic on that one. She scratched, gaze wandering back over to him. “Maybe not…” Unclear which question that was in response to.
Viper “…We can have a look for him, if you want. I don’t think he came from the book with you, though, sadly…”
She made some kind of face for a second—she’d certainly hope he hadn’t come with her, in context!!—then frowned. “Or him…?”
Viper “By the way, you seemed a little afraid of that other lady. Why was that? She was pretty scary… but it looked like more than that.”
Ibah started to open her mouth, then looked down, seeming a little ill.
But the question also summoned Mathias back over. He stooped (could someone that tall really be Jack’s dad?) to get closer to Ibah’s eye level. “Who was it?” Someone bothering you, queen??
It took her another second to speak up. “Auntie…”
He sighed, turning to Viper once he was satisfied Elucia wasn’t still there. “Her aunt’s an archer. Just… picked a poor target for a demonstration once.”
