You'd balk this easily? [ Like the illusion of a holographic foil, the moment his face shifted from one to the next is difficult to pinpoint. It's only that Lucius is no longer smiling, and that his posture is suddenly anything but loose and playful. ]
It isn't a matter of trust, Eridanus. It is a matter of remaining trapped and passive, or trying something. If you're too timid to test the boundaries of this realm, then by all means, remain where you are β but I will go regardless. Your place at my side is what I desire, and nothing more.
[ A mirage of a midday haze, his sudden seriousness disappears. Just as seamlessly, his tone returns to jocular. ]
As for the rest of it, [ again, his splayed hands cut through the air in a dismissive gesture, ] you wouldn't expect the captain of a vessel to explain his tech-priests' work. If you wish to speak to the man in charge of the project, then I believe you two were already introduced during that dreadfully quaint winter gathering.
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It isn't a matter of trust, Eridanus. It is a matter of remaining trapped and passive, or trying something. If you're too timid to test the boundaries of this realm, then by all means, remain where you are β but I will go regardless. Your place at my side is what I desire, and nothing more.
[ A mirage of a midday haze, his sudden seriousness disappears. Just as seamlessly, his tone returns to jocular. ]
As for the rest of it, [ again, his splayed hands cut through the air in a dismissive gesture, ] you wouldn't expect the captain of a vessel to explain his tech-priests' work. If you wish to speak to the man in charge of the project, then I believe you two were already introduced during that dreadfully quaint winter gathering.