I believe you've seen them all, actually. Spelldaggers and the lance.
[Speaking of which, let's just shove the lance back into the armiger, shall we. Hammerspace!]
I keep them in the same place I kept that can of soda I used when we were baking together. It's something of an all-purpose holding mechanism, the armiger.
[He pauses, seeming to consider something, and then goes over to retrieve both his spelldaggers before heading over to try to help Dave in his efforts.]
I seem to recall I was a bit duplicitous about that as well, at the time. It's Noct's magic, that I have access to. I've been able to use it for years now.
["The other guy", huh. That'll come back later, he's making a note, but for right now he'll let the conversation continue to flow this way instead.]
Not at all. But my skillset isn't designed for leadership, per se. I suppose you could say I lack the one fundamental characteristic that any good leader needs.
[He regards his daggers, then lets them shatter away back into the armiger to rejoin his lance.]
Choosing the right path to walk. My bailiwick is seeing as many of the paths as possible, and being able to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each one. My weakness is that sometimes the right answer isn't one that can be determined by a mere cost/benefit analysis.
Oh. God, I'm way the fuck not any better at that. [ knowing what has to happen is an entirely different ballpark. ] But yeah. Sometimes the right path isn't the one that seems the most logical, but "hey, we need to do this because it's what we should do, as decent people, and maybe that won't go great for us but we're doing it anyway" and the sometimes it works out and naivety wins the day and sometimes it doesn't. And sometimes there aren't really any "right" answers but just a bunch of bad ones and the logic might help to figure out which is the least bad overall?
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[Speaking of which, let's just shove the lance back into the armiger, shall we. Hammerspace!]
I keep them in the same place I kept that can of soda I used when we were baking together. It's something of an all-purpose holding mechanism, the armiger.
[He pauses, seeming to consider something, and then goes over to retrieve both his spelldaggers before heading over to try to help Dave in his efforts.]
I seem to recall I was a bit duplicitous about that as well, at the time. It's Noct's magic, that I have access to. I've been able to use it for years now.
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[ that actually makes sense tbh. dave's just...
continuing to cut animals free. there are maybe more dead than alive so it shouldn't take them all that long. ]
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[Obligingly, he knifes free something that is probably a possum, if you look at it with a little bit of imagination.]
Sometimes he doesn't. Oftentimes he doesn't, actually.
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[ he frees a rabbit......toad. okay. ]
They care about you as a person first.
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[Or your father, he thinks idly.]
Sometimes it's hard to embrace that.
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[ he's pretty sure they've freed everything that can be freed - dave works fast. ]
I couldn't do it.
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[He shrugs slightly.]
If caring about the welfare of people is one of the fundamental criteria of it, you're already far out ahead of the figurative curve.
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[ the dave who matters, he means, but he doesn't explain that, just cleaning his blade and sending it back into his sylladex. ]
Do you think you're bad at that somehow, or something?
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["The other guy", huh. That'll come back later, he's making a note, but for right now he'll let the conversation continue to flow this way instead.]
Not at all. But my skillset isn't designed for leadership, per se. I suppose you could say I lack the one fundamental characteristic that any good leader needs.
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Putting the many before the few?
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[He regards his daggers, then lets them shatter away back into the armiger to rejoin his lance.]
Choosing the right path to walk. My bailiwick is seeing as many of the paths as possible, and being able to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each one. My weakness is that sometimes the right answer isn't one that can be determined by a mere cost/benefit analysis.
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