(ooc: not sure how familiar you are with the medicine seller, but he's meant to be a little In The Know about others in this weird mystical way, so i hope you don't mind his reading into claude too much. :>)
[he chuckles at the supposition that he is here to recruit for the military, low and breathy. he also catches on to the quick attempt to pull him away from delving too deep into something that definitely was too close for comfort.
an inhale of air—] The only war I care for is the one against monsters.
[and an exhale, as he goes through the same motion of picking up the newly selected card. before he flips it, though, he allows for claude's questions to be the reason he hesitates.]
Nothing of the sort. Just a children's game.
[expressive as usual. he flips the chosen card, and pauses. a more detailed image is set on the canvas of the card: the a series of masks, colorful and exaggerated in their features.]
Ah, so your Truth is not exactly as perceived. [he grins,] Hiding from others, but not in cowardice. A plan. A big plan. Honorable, even.
no subject
[he chuckles at the supposition that he is here to recruit for the military, low and breathy. he also catches on to the quick attempt to pull him away from delving too deep into something that definitely was too close for comfort.
an inhale of air—] The only war I care for is the one against monsters.
[and an exhale, as he goes through the same motion of picking up the newly selected card. before he flips it, though, he allows for claude's questions to be the reason he hesitates.]
Nothing of the sort. Just a children's game.
[expressive as usual. he flips the chosen card, and pauses. a more detailed image is set on the canvas of the card: the a series of masks, colorful and exaggerated in their features.]
Ah, so your Truth is not exactly as perceived. [he grins,] Hiding from others, but not in cowardice. A plan. A big plan. Honorable, even.
[he motions at the cards in the center.]
Will you pick your Reason, now?