[color=#008e02]"Ah but of course, assumptions go both ways da'len. I do not believe you began such a fight, that you refused to stop was the issue. Nevertheless, it is a moot point now either way isn't it?"[/color] No matter who had attacked first, that none of them had even attempted to halt their own actions was the problem. The fact that it was in the middle of the city during a busy evening only made it all the more frustrating. But such things had come and gone and like everything, would be mostly forgotten about in due time, save for the occasional embarrassing memory in a few years perhaps. As long as he was granted the chance to live that long, who was to say with Elgar'nan roaming around Thedas and fucking shit up quite consistently simply by existing.
Then again, he'd always tended to do that.
A raised brow was all the younger elf would gain as a response at first, at least until he was sure he'd finished. "You are more than welcome to push should you wish to, I simply cannot say if you will gain anything from it or not. My days of sleeping with another simply for 'fun' are long over, it stopped being fun a long time ago without someone to care for. As for the rest, I have met plenty with a far more foul mouth than you, I believe I shall survive just fine." A nickname he simply tolerated or not, he had been called and had far worse things thrown at him verbally over the years. From those who simply disliked his way of doing things, to the few that actively wanted him six feet under and drowning in a pool of his own blood. He'd had plenty of time in his younger years to develop a foul mouth and as for persistent flirting, well Elgar'nan still hadn't stopped no matter how many times he'd told the bastard no. He would manage, regardless of how Ruth insisted on behaving around him.
Entertaining as it was to listen to the elf and attempt to study at the same time, he could not seem to hold his focus on both. Not when the younger seemed intend to switch topics from one to the next so rapidly, a side effect of his intoxicated state, or so he presumed. Had he not known of the young elf, he might have once assumed it to be the ramblings of someone far older and rather fed up with life as a whole. Then again, everyone seemed to be on some level that he had met. There was a never ending source of problems to be sorted, but engaging in debates about existence was not why Revas had come out here. Not to mention he was hardly the right person to ask. An outsider's perspective would hardly prove to be of much help.
While the rambling certainly helped him see perhaps a faint glimpse of who the boy might truly be under at least some of that bluster, was not what he started with, but what he ended up on. A far more personal topic, one that had him looking over sharply, even as he had set about to closing the tome in his lap and shifting his own satchel a little closer to store it away for the time being. Paused mid-motion as he sat there for a few seconds, processing just what he had been told. Well, it explained a few things that was for sure. The excessively harsh reaction informed him of plenty more and as he slowly set the tome within it's proper place for now, he nodded his head gently. [color=#008e02]"I will not breathe a word of it to anyone."[/color] Not that such knowledge would be useful to any other that he could fathom at the moment, but he would avoid mentioning that. Sensitive topic that it clearly was.
After that, a heaviness in the air between them was almost to be expected. Coming for once, not from the sheer amount of belongings he carried around as he set his satchel to one side once more. He shouldn't need it now until he planned to move on for the night. Even if that meant having to carry it, and likely Ruth as well back to Megara. Unfortunate yes, but he wasn't going to leave the boy passed out in the middle of the city. No matter how much this particular area felt like home. Or maybe a nearby inn if the younger elf wished to continue his rambling to nobody before resting.
Rather then focus on a singular point, he heaves a sigh and with it lays back. Gaze instead fixed on the specs of the night sky he can see from here, smaller than what he could regularly witness from Skyhold, but it would do. [color=#008e02]"It has not escaped my notice, but there are more important matters I have to deal with than my own curiosity about other people."[/color] That was a simple fact, indulging in the simplicity of life was in short supply at the moment, clung onto by a thread while he worked frantically to try and regain the power he'd lost. Enough to reassure himself that he would not perish to a singular strike from that bastard. [color=#008e02]"People judge others, draw comparisons, it is a natural part of existence. You said it yourself, people do not trust. Not even themselves. You make the assumption that we are similar likely due to the fact that I have shared very little of myself with you, just as you hide your actual self away from others. I have not asked questions because I know I am unlikely to get a genuine answer, you evade or ask me not to mention it again if some shard of truth does come to light. Mean or not to you, do not assume it is all I am, just because that is the only infinitely small part of me that you witness when I am here." [/color]
Then again, he'd always tended to do that.
A raised brow was all the younger elf would gain as a response at first, at least until he was sure he'd finished. "You are more than welcome to push should you wish to, I simply cannot say if you will gain anything from it or not. My days of sleeping with another simply for 'fun' are long over, it stopped being fun a long time ago without someone to care for. As for the rest, I have met plenty with a far more foul mouth than you, I believe I shall survive just fine." A nickname he simply tolerated or not, he had been called and had far worse things thrown at him verbally over the years. From those who simply disliked his way of doing things, to the few that actively wanted him six feet under and drowning in a pool of his own blood. He'd had plenty of time in his younger years to develop a foul mouth and as for persistent flirting, well Elgar'nan still hadn't stopped no matter how many times he'd told the bastard no. He would manage, regardless of how Ruth insisted on behaving around him.
Entertaining as it was to listen to the elf and attempt to study at the same time, he could not seem to hold his focus on both. Not when the younger seemed intend to switch topics from one to the next so rapidly, a side effect of his intoxicated state, or so he presumed. Had he not known of the young elf, he might have once assumed it to be the ramblings of someone far older and rather fed up with life as a whole. Then again, everyone seemed to be on some level that he had met. There was a never ending source of problems to be sorted, but engaging in debates about existence was not why Revas had come out here. Not to mention he was hardly the right person to ask. An outsider's perspective would hardly prove to be of much help.
While the rambling certainly helped him see perhaps a faint glimpse of who the boy might truly be under at least some of that bluster, was not what he started with, but what he ended up on. A far more personal topic, one that had him looking over sharply, even as he had set about to closing the tome in his lap and shifting his own satchel a little closer to store it away for the time being. Paused mid-motion as he sat there for a few seconds, processing just what he had been told. Well, it explained a few things that was for sure. The excessively harsh reaction informed him of plenty more and as he slowly set the tome within it's proper place for now, he nodded his head gently. [color=#008e02]"I will not breathe a word of it to anyone."[/color] Not that such knowledge would be useful to any other that he could fathom at the moment, but he would avoid mentioning that. Sensitive topic that it clearly was.
After that, a heaviness in the air between them was almost to be expected. Coming for once, not from the sheer amount of belongings he carried around as he set his satchel to one side once more. He shouldn't need it now until he planned to move on for the night. Even if that meant having to carry it, and likely Ruth as well back to Megara. Unfortunate yes, but he wasn't going to leave the boy passed out in the middle of the city. No matter how much this particular area felt like home. Or maybe a nearby inn if the younger elf wished to continue his rambling to nobody before resting.
Rather then focus on a singular point, he heaves a sigh and with it lays back. Gaze instead fixed on the specs of the night sky he can see from here, smaller than what he could regularly witness from Skyhold, but it would do. [color=#008e02]"It has not escaped my notice, but there are more important matters I have to deal with than my own curiosity about other people."[/color] That was a simple fact, indulging in the simplicity of life was in short supply at the moment, clung onto by a thread while he worked frantically to try and regain the power he'd lost. Enough to reassure himself that he would not perish to a singular strike from that bastard. [color=#008e02]"People judge others, draw comparisons, it is a natural part of existence. You said it yourself, people do not trust. Not even themselves. You make the assumption that we are similar likely due to the fact that I have shared very little of myself with you, just as you hide your actual self away from others. I have not asked questions because I know I am unlikely to get a genuine answer, you evade or ask me not to mention it again if some shard of truth does come to light. Mean or not to you, do not assume it is all I am, just because that is the only infinitely small part of me that you witness when I am here." [/color]
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