[Caleb gives a quick nod, glancing back once at the door as if wondering if his friends would be nosy enough to listen in. They might be. Veth and Jester, if he had to guess. But hopefully they are occupied elsewhere.
He doesn't have time to think about that, turning back to Essek as the Drow speaks. He straightens up now, eyes fixed on that newly appeared spellbook. He draws his own free from the book holster at his side, quite ready for whatever it is that the Shadowhand is willing to impart to him.
There's a spark in the Zemnian wizard's eyes.]
Yes.
[He answers with a flicker of a smile. All of those things.]
But perhaps most of all, the influence over fate itself.
[Of time and reality, really, of desperately trying to undo his past sins.]
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Date: 2023-04-05 06:14 am (UTC)He doesn't have time to think about that, turning back to Essek as the Drow speaks. He straightens up now, eyes fixed on that newly appeared spellbook. He draws his own free from the book holster at his side, quite ready for whatever it is that the Shadowhand is willing to impart to him.
There's a spark in the Zemnian wizard's eyes.]
Yes.
[He answers with a flicker of a smile. All of those things.]
But perhaps most of all, the influence over fate itself.
[Of time and reality, really, of desperately trying to undo his past sins.]