[ she smiles at the offer and can't help a quiet giggle at his own self-criticism. ]
It'll be fun. An adventure.
[ maybe an odd way of looking at it with her volatile reaction to being here at all. but they're in an entirely new world, an unknown land to explore, and there's plenty of excitement to be had in being utterly lost. she ignores the mages entirely; they can come after her later if there's anything important she needs to know.
instead, she holds out her hand as though expecting alyx to take it. childlike, indeed, which may be especially strange for a seventeen year old girl. perhaps it's the end result of a childhood stolen - of years spent getting intimately acquainted with knives and needles and terrible secrets slicing directly into her brain - that the child still remains.
alyx has offered her a landing point, something more gentle than the rough way she was dragged into this world, and what does any child need more than a sense of safety? however faint it may be without simon, the only thing in the entire 'verse that can make her actually feel safe - but it's a start, and so river tries to hold onto that lifeline for as long as she can. ]
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It'll be fun. An adventure.
[ maybe an odd way of looking at it with her volatile reaction to being here at all. but they're in an entirely new world, an unknown land to explore, and there's plenty of excitement to be had in being utterly lost. she ignores the mages entirely; they can come after her later if there's anything important she needs to know.
instead, she holds out her hand as though expecting alyx to take it. childlike, indeed, which may be especially strange for a seventeen year old girl. perhaps it's the end result of a childhood stolen - of years spent getting intimately acquainted with knives and needles and terrible secrets slicing directly into her brain - that the child still remains.
alyx has offered her a landing point, something more gentle than the rough way she was dragged into this world, and what does any child need more than a sense of safety? however faint it may be without simon, the only thing in the entire 'verse that can make her actually feel safe - but it's a start, and so river tries to hold onto that lifeline for as long as she can. ]