Right, I remember you saying you went there young.
( From when Adelaide told her of her memories from before the Spire, that she'd had less time to accumulate them. She feels a prickle of sadness and sympathy, but holds it back. This isn't about what she thinks about it. )
The kind of friends you'd have for life, right? ( And it isn't just that. There's an echo of something familiar, there. Of being teased and dared and protected by a blacksmith's boy, and it's a painful type of nostalgia. )
Sounds like me and Peter.
( Did she tell Adelaide the name of her first love? She thinks she did, but the Fade was so many things that she'd hardly expect Adelaide to remember.
She's not sure it'd be appropriate to clarify or to say he was one of the first to call her Red, a nickname so pervasive even her grandmother used it.
Quietly, gently, all hints of teasing from earlier in the conversation gone, )
Sounds like delicious cereal... the classy cinnamon toast crunch alternative
( From when Adelaide told her of her memories from before the Spire, that she'd had less time to accumulate them. She feels a prickle of sadness and sympathy, but holds it back. This isn't about what she thinks about it. )
The kind of friends you'd have for life, right? ( And it isn't just that. There's an echo of something familiar, there. Of being teased and dared and protected by a blacksmith's boy, and it's a painful type of nostalgia. )
Sounds like me and Peter.
( Did she tell Adelaide the name of her first love? She thinks she did, but the Fade was so many things that she'd hardly expect Adelaide to remember.
She's not sure it'd be appropriate to clarify or to say he was one of the first to call her Red, a nickname so pervasive even her grandmother used it.
Quietly, gently, all hints of teasing from earlier in the conversation gone, )
You were very close, huh?