That does all seem very reassuring. The strange woman on the lake had been more dizzyingly alluring, and she hadn't really spoken at all, only cast the impression of a summons.
"I am Huaisang," he says, taking a timid step closer to them both. "You're another person who's been kidnapped? What's ... Are you taking notes?"
Information gathering has become a priority for him, and he's ended up putting himself close to the center of it, doing his best to nag others into posting their discoveries and updates on the message board he and Five started in the community hall. The discovery that he's a competent bureaucrat is fairly new for him, something he'd only just started exploring back home.
Huaisang himself looks utterly out of time, dressed all in long layers of silk. The winter cloak he's wearing is obviously more ornamental than intended for the kind of northern chill they're dealing with in Milton, and under the hood it's easy to see that he's got long, long dark hair, only half up and decorated with intricate braidwork.
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"I am Huaisang," he says, taking a timid step closer to them both. "You're another person who's been kidnapped? What's ... Are you taking notes?"
Information gathering has become a priority for him, and he's ended up putting himself close to the center of it, doing his best to nag others into posting their discoveries and updates on the message board he and Five started in the community hall. The discovery that he's a competent bureaucrat is fairly new for him, something he'd only just started exploring back home.
Huaisang himself looks utterly out of time, dressed all in long layers of silk. The winter cloak he's wearing is obviously more ornamental than intended for the kind of northern chill they're dealing with in Milton, and under the hood it's easy to see that he's got long, long dark hair, only half up and decorated with intricate braidwork.