[You can learn a lot about someone by the way they stand. Not that she's any sort of expert in it; her experience with it has been less about training and more about repeated trials by fire, but you learn things when you watch people.
She doesn't miss the way he's got his clothes arranged, tattered though they may be. She lives the vast majority of her life letting her too-large cloak swallow her up; seems as though he's letting his clothes do the same thing. And he's taken the time to wash his face, to clean up, so evidently that's something he cares about and will put time into. Not the sign of someone who's accepted an existence in the same dirt and scuffle that his clothes would reflect.
There's a lot about this encounter that has warning bells sounding off in the back of her head. Too many juxtapositions of things that shouldn't be going together, but are.]
Sounds like you're speaking from firsthand experience.
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She doesn't miss the way he's got his clothes arranged, tattered though they may be. She lives the vast majority of her life letting her too-large cloak swallow her up; seems as though he's letting his clothes do the same thing. And he's taken the time to wash his face, to clean up, so evidently that's something he cares about and will put time into. Not the sign of someone who's accepted an existence in the same dirt and scuffle that his clothes would reflect.
There's a lot about this encounter that has warning bells sounding off in the back of her head. Too many juxtapositions of things that shouldn't be going together, but are.]
Sounds like you're speaking from firsthand experience.
[She's yet to put her hands down.]