Only the threat of loss, if there is a threat being posed.
Rabastan's life has been marked by a lot of pain, loss and hardship. Good things—if there were any—were few and far between, and when you get them, you should enjoy them and not question whatever good fortune you've been given.
And when even your future—your very normal future, where plans did not go unfulfilled—was taken from you at the end of a series of very bad errors in judgement, you learn to be ready for the day your next loss comes.
He stands to the side, waiting for Gideon to ask him to bring something else out to inspect, as he tries not to indulge his melancholy.
Gideon, though, remains completely oblivious.
"This one is more recently made, lad," he explains.
no subject
Rabastan's life has been marked by a lot of pain, loss and hardship. Good things—if there were any—were few and far between, and when you get them, you should enjoy them and not question whatever good fortune you've been given.
And when even your future—your very normal future, where plans did not go unfulfilled—was taken from you at the end of a series of very bad errors in judgement, you learn to be ready for the day your next loss comes.
He stands to the side, waiting for Gideon to ask him to bring something else out to inspect, as he tries not to indulge his melancholy.
Gideon, though, remains completely oblivious.
"This one is more recently made, lad," he explains.