[ Lancelot answers dryly, although it's soft enough that he seems overall in relatively good spirits to take (somewhat immediately, actually) what he assumes is Cain's teasing in stride.
He hasn't been looking for very long, but he admittedly was hoping for there to be a more dramatic spectacle to be witnessed that was undeniably real. It's all too easy to understand how the rumors could form without anything actually occurring here just by how light and shadow cut into one another and scatter patterns throughout the area. Of course individuals are bound to see things that their mind has to fill in detail for in this sort of environment.
Perhaps there really is nothing to be anticipated tonight, after all. ]
It is even more uneventful than I expected. [ there is a momentary pause before he ventures to add:] ... so far, at least.
[ Things that sound like a terrible idea to Lancelot: completely dismissing claims of activity as fabricated ghost stories when within the same vicinity as a heart that beats without its purpose as an organ in a living creature—even if he is one inclined to err on the side of skepticism in hearing these sorts of stories. The Grandcypher crew has seen quite Some Things that make immediately brushing aside even the most improbable without checking for themselves is not the best course of action. ]
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[ Lancelot answers dryly, although it's soft enough that he seems overall in relatively good spirits to take (somewhat immediately, actually) what he assumes is Cain's teasing in stride.
He hasn't been looking for very long, but he admittedly was hoping for there to be a more dramatic spectacle to be witnessed that was undeniably real. It's all too easy to understand how the rumors could form without anything actually occurring here just by how light and shadow cut into one another and scatter patterns throughout the area. Of course individuals are bound to see things that their mind has to fill in detail for in this sort of environment.
Perhaps there really is nothing to be anticipated tonight, after all. ]
It is even more uneventful than I expected. [ there is a momentary pause before he ventures to add:] ... so far, at least.
[ Things that sound like a terrible idea to Lancelot: completely dismissing claims of activity as fabricated ghost stories when within the same vicinity as a heart that beats without its purpose as an organ in a living creature—even if he is one inclined to err on the side of skepticism in hearing these sorts of stories. The Grandcypher crew has seen quite Some Things that make immediately brushing aside even the most improbable without checking for themselves is not the best course of action. ]