LinGalad sat down beside the girl, and looked up gratefully at the night sky overhead. The council had not stopped, not for lunch nor dinner and apparently not for mannish bedtime either. But LinGalad had heard enough gory stories, and longed for fresh air. Here, he had it, and apparently something else.
Out of the corner of his eye he studied Avery hesitantly, even as he congratulated himself on the sentence he had just delivered in one of the local mannish dialects. He wasn't sure what "hey" meant, but he had heard it sprinkled around liberally in the marketplace. And he didn't understand why the sentence subjects were so often implied when they could be stated just as easily. But no matter; the mannish girl had apparently understood his intent perfectly well, and sitting down beside her and looking up had saved him from having to compose another one of those awkward mannish sentences.
"I missed the sky while I was... inside. It's too bad that these buildings hide the sky so completely. Forests don't do that."
Avery gave him an odd look. "It didn't go anywhere while you were inside, did it? It's still here. Same old sky."
LinGalad didn't know how to answer, so he gave a slightly awkward smile, and waited.
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