Okay, granted, I probably shouldn’t have said “Hello, Emerick” in Shiftran.
But he had clearly been standing there for a while, which means he already heard me converse with both Symone and Jesse in Shiftran. So the cat’s pretty much out of the bag.
“I was surprised enough to see you ride like that,” Emerick says in Shiftran as he emerges from the treeline and into our clearing. “But to hear you speak a language everyone in town is so convinced you don’t understand…”
It’s hard to pinpoint his tone—not malicious, exactly, but not the innocent, gentlemanly drawl I’m used to, either.
I hate to say it, but he almost sounds… turned on.
Well, I’m not going to tug at that particular thread right in front of Jesse, even if it would be the smart move. “I can explain. When Lyons found us—”
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