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Eyes of a Child
May. 11th, 2006 07:00 pm"There," I say, holding up the purple shirt, "finished. What do you think?"
Grunth looks at it for a moment, and I watch an odd expression flicker over the child's face before I receive a shrug in response. I think about it for a moment, before taking a guess.
"I could make a bag for you to keep it in," I venture softly, "something easy to hide."
This time the answer is a firm nod, and I smile as best I can when my throat's choked up. I pull out some more cloth and a bit of leather, keeping the bag simple, plain, worth little.
Grunth watches me work for a few moments, as quietly as he had watched everyone at the Zhevra earlier, even the poor, odd, and very drunk troll. As quiet as he had been since I'd greeted the dwarf on her horse as we passed on the way to the Rampart, but not quite as uneasy a silence as the one that had followed the Night Elf at the dock gently patting his head. I start to worry about the lecture the Matron will give me when she hears about his Alliance-friendly, drunk-filled trip, when he surprises me with an actual question.
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Grunth looks at it for a moment, and I watch an odd expression flicker over the child's face before I receive a shrug in response. I think about it for a moment, before taking a guess.
"I could make a bag for you to keep it in," I venture softly, "something easy to hide."
This time the answer is a firm nod, and I smile as best I can when my throat's choked up. I pull out some more cloth and a bit of leather, keeping the bag simple, plain, worth little.
Grunth watches me work for a few moments, as quietly as he had watched everyone at the Zhevra earlier, even the poor, odd, and very drunk troll. As quiet as he had been since I'd greeted the dwarf on her horse as we passed on the way to the Rampart, but not quite as uneasy a silence as the one that had followed the Night Elf at the dock gently patting his head. I start to worry about the lecture the Matron will give me when she hears about his Alliance-friendly, drunk-filled trip, when he surprises me with an actual question.
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