"I wouldn't have been." Don't start, Martel. He glances at the sign on the opposite stack - dimensional travel, gates - and rolls his eyes.
"Nothing of importance to me," he agrees, sardonic, "but if you can't come and go, it's in my best interests to see that you go sooner rather than later. You're trapped, is that it?"
Now, at least, Martel understands why it was that the last time he saw Sparhawk - not this one, another one, one to whom he made a promise - he didn't feel quite...right. He briefly considers and discards the idea that it invalidates that oath (sophistry, and beyond that merely clutching at straws), but it does make a bloody mess of things he'd prefer were a distant, cold memory.
They're from the same world, he's sure now, and Kalten before him. Damn the lot of them.
(The things he wanted, in his trunk, now known to be from some other timeline...but they are his, and all just as he remembered them, and the man who left them behind is dead while he is not. This Sparhawk, he thinks, wouldn't be so tolerant of his nostalgia. He'd best just forget, and be glad to have them at all.)
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"Nothing of importance to me," he agrees, sardonic, "but if you can't come and go, it's in my best interests to see that you go sooner rather than later. You're trapped, is that it?"
Now, at least, Martel understands why it was that the last time he saw Sparhawk - not this one, another one, one to whom he made a promise - he didn't feel quite...right. He briefly considers and discards the idea that it invalidates that oath (sophistry, and beyond that merely clutching at straws), but it does make a bloody mess of things he'd prefer were a distant, cold memory.
They're from the same world, he's sure now, and Kalten before him. Damn the lot of them.
(The things he wanted, in his trunk, now known to be from some other timeline...but they are his, and all just as he remembered them, and the man who left them behind is dead while he is not. This Sparhawk, he thinks, wouldn't be so tolerant of his nostalgia. He'd best just forget, and be glad to have them at all.)