May 14, 2025 10:59 am
"I don't know that we should run." Ane thinks, grateful for the grounding. "Not if it is just this one old man." She does not underestimate him based on his apparent decrepitude, but does feel the two of them can easily outpace him at a brisk walk, if they need to.
"I don't think any of those options are worse than the other?" She speculates. "So, maybe, we just head for whatever is closest? Like: 'Whoops. We missed out turn.' if we have to..."
But Ane is thinking about how they were 'in front' and let the Red Robe pass them by. "Or... maybe we just keep walking past him. What is he going to do? Attack us in the streets? He does not know us, not looking like this, so if he gets suspicious... what of? The wall goes that way, so everyone is walking the same direction. When he leaves the wall... that is when it might be more suspicious... but let's deal with that then." She is talking to herself more than to her companion, "don't borrow trouble" her mother always tells her.
"Completely dropping the disguise...? That should be quite quick... But I don't want to do that unless we absolutely have to, like if these personas are more compromised than our own faces —they know us. We can try a hasty change to someone else, it should go smoother than last time, we have been practicing and I have that elf/dwarf pair quite strongly in my mind."
"I don't think any of those options are worse than the other?" She speculates. "So, maybe, we just head for whatever is closest? Like: 'Whoops. We missed out turn.' if we have to..."
But Ane is thinking about how they were 'in front' and let the Red Robe pass them by. "Or... maybe we just keep walking past him. What is he going to do? Attack us in the streets? He does not know us, not looking like this, so if he gets suspicious... what of? The wall goes that way, so everyone is walking the same direction. When he leaves the wall... that is when it might be more suspicious... but let's deal with that then." She is talking to herself more than to her companion, "don't borrow trouble" her mother always tells her.
"Completely dropping the disguise...? That should be quite quick... But I don't want to do that unless we absolutely have to, like if these personas are more compromised than our own faces —they know us. We can try a hasty change to someone else, it should go smoother than last time, we have been practicing and I have that elf/dwarf pair quite strongly in my mind."
