vitaei:

@hellfirebound 

♥’d

          ^{she doesn’t turn when she senses the intruder in her home. if someone has come with any intention of doing her harm — they’ve already made it through her wards, and that means any defensive stance she might take now  would likely be useless. instead, triss continues to direct her gaze downward, into the book she holds — an ancient text that few can translate, and into which she’s put a great deal of effort simply in the acquisition.} 

     ^{❛   how did you get in here ?   ❜}  

          ^{the question is quiet, casual, when she finally poses it. there’s this sense of something —— though she can’t quite put her finger on it —— and generally when one is so determined to see another that they will disable any safeguards surrounding a place, they’re likely to explain their purpose sooner than later.}

      ^{❛   couldn’t have been easy.   ❜}  

     _{if it was easy, he wouldn’t have been here, but then again, there was only so much he could do. warding was new to him ; it wasn’t simply picking locks, but dealt with something else entirely. a reason to why he was hesitant to even answer the question.} 

       _{in his mind, answering would only cause more questions to be posed, and he didn’t have the answers to many of the one’s he thought the other would ask. all he knew so far was he needed to find someone — someone who might be able to shed some light on his… current situation.}

      _{❛ i walked through the door. ❜}

      _{a simple statement, something that was not quite the truth, but also not quite a lie either. he wanted to be truthful, but it was far easier to speak lies these days than anything else… at least when the true matter of facts were far more complicated than a simply put lie.}

        _{❛ is that a problem? ❜}