[It’s easy enough to be willing to offer her trust to the first person extending a helping hand in such circumstances. Alone, exhausted, and quite thoroughly clueless as to where she is or where to go from here, it is without question, the wisest course of action. The only course of action, really. There will be time enough to reassess once she is out of what feels like immediate danger. It makes perfect sense.
At least until another party throws that all into disarray.
She turns as another voice carries through the cavern to them, pulling the borrowed cloak tighter around herself. She finds a young woman joining them, thoroughly at ease unlike Dorothea and her chivalrous new companion.
She doesn’t quite know what to make of what she says, not at first. Though the words do begin to plant the seed of doubt within her mind. She focuses then on Syrlya, wanting to asses exactly what he thinks of this newcomer and her insistence on Dorothea getting some answers here and now.
Instead she mostly finds herself with more questions.]
Soldiers? [Goddess above, she truly couldn’t escape conflict, could she?] What is going on?
[She takes a careful step back, suddenly not quite so eager to be near either stranger, her gaze drifting carefully between the two of them.]
Yeah!
At least until another party throws that all into disarray.
She turns as another voice carries through the cavern to them, pulling the borrowed cloak tighter around herself. She finds a young woman joining them, thoroughly at ease unlike Dorothea and her chivalrous new companion.
She doesn’t quite know what to make of what she says, not at first. Though the words do begin to plant the seed of doubt within her mind. She focuses then on Syrlya, wanting to asses exactly what he thinks of this newcomer and her insistence on Dorothea getting some answers here and now.
Instead she mostly finds herself with more questions.]
Soldiers? [Goddess above, she truly couldn’t escape conflict, could she?] What is going on?
[She takes a careful step back, suddenly not quite so eager to be near either stranger, her gaze drifting carefully between the two of them.]