11-03-2015, 05:40 AM
...the conversation in her head ending brings Betimi back into the moment... she realizes that Selina is still sitting there, seeming to be waiting for her to speak..
Betimi opens and closes her moth a few times, as if unsure where to start.. then her brows furrow in thought.
"I have seen your people," realizing that Selina might not consider people of other races, 'her' people, Betimi rephrases. "The people who dwell beneath these sun and stars. Anyway, they sometimes keep animals near hem for some reason besides food or labour. They call them pets, or companions. I guess Beast was like that for us. Yes he would have withered and starved down there alone, he needed us as well, but more than that he was our companion through a long trek.
If not for Beast we.. I.. would have starved, or been.. retaken.
We found him at just the right time, hobbled in a small side cavern in the depths, alone, with a packsaddle filled with gear. He was half starved and dehydrated, despite having his own feed and water hanging from his packsaddle. Food, rope, this spear and crossbow even. His former owner.. well he must have been a fool like Mardak, coming alone to the deep realms. He was nowhere to be found, and had left the poor animal to die of starvation, hobbled.
Beast was a fighter though, I got him un-hobbled, and fed; then he just started plodding along. I did not know then, but learned that he knew the way out. We had to fight to keep up with him, and he fought off more than one attacker with us, in his fight to reach the surface.
Beast led us.. me.. to my freedom. Without him I would never have made it away from the deep realms, I did not know the way. And one could spend a lifetime in the deep realm and not ever find one of the ways to the surface."
She stumbles to a stop. Realizing that is more than she has ever spoken all at once, to anyone in her entire life.
Betimi opens and closes her moth a few times, as if unsure where to start.. then her brows furrow in thought.
"I have seen your people," realizing that Selina might not consider people of other races, 'her' people, Betimi rephrases. "The people who dwell beneath these sun and stars. Anyway, they sometimes keep animals near hem for some reason besides food or labour. They call them pets, or companions. I guess Beast was like that for us. Yes he would have withered and starved down there alone, he needed us as well, but more than that he was our companion through a long trek.
If not for Beast we.. I.. would have starved, or been.. retaken.
We found him at just the right time, hobbled in a small side cavern in the depths, alone, with a packsaddle filled with gear. He was half starved and dehydrated, despite having his own feed and water hanging from his packsaddle. Food, rope, this spear and crossbow even. His former owner.. well he must have been a fool like Mardak, coming alone to the deep realms. He was nowhere to be found, and had left the poor animal to die of starvation, hobbled.
Beast was a fighter though, I got him un-hobbled, and fed; then he just started plodding along. I did not know then, but learned that he knew the way out. We had to fight to keep up with him, and he fought off more than one attacker with us, in his fight to reach the surface.
Beast led us.. me.. to my freedom. Without him I would never have made it away from the deep realms, I did not know the way. And one could spend a lifetime in the deep realm and not ever find one of the ways to the surface."
She stumbles to a stop. Realizing that is more than she has ever spoken all at once, to anyone in her entire life.
