There's a genuine smile with his words. Trouble or no, he has always been fond of her company. Even if it's one that Hythlodaeus had had to all but drag him into, at first. But now, he can hardly imagine anything else. Or couldn't have, before their world had been destroyed in a single calamitous moment. But even that hadn't truly been enough to erase what he'd felt for her. It had merely made those memories all the more precious, even as they'd fallen into the grip of an almost melancholic nostalgia.
But this is still nothing that he wants to directly say to her, and so he turns instead to her other comment.
"I did try to make them see reason. But you know how the most of them are. Stubborn to the last, when there's no reason to look past the ends of their noses."
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There's a genuine smile with his words. Trouble or no, he has always been fond of her company. Even if it's one that Hythlodaeus had had to all but drag him into, at first. But now, he can hardly imagine anything else. Or couldn't have, before their world had been destroyed in a single calamitous moment. But even that hadn't truly been enough to erase what he'd felt for her. It had merely made those memories all the more precious, even as they'd fallen into the grip of an almost melancholic nostalgia.
But this is still nothing that he wants to directly say to her, and so he turns instead to her other comment.
"I did try to make them see reason. But you know how the most of them are. Stubborn to the last, when there's no reason to look past the ends of their noses."