couldn’t they show up in something normal for once?!
And why did they have to look so damn good in it?!
“Damn it.” Bandi sighed. They’d been trying and failing to light their cigarette with their pistol’s flintlock. They didn’t even look at Halladr when they asked, “Got a light, Hall?”
It took him a minute to register the question before hastily searching his pockets. He didn’t really smoke but they did use a lighter for their work sometimes. Scrambling a bit, he fished one out of his tool belt and held it out as far from himself as he was able.
The sylvari snorted. “Ya think I’m gonna bite ya or somethin’?”
“Huh? N-No I just—”
Bandi leaned in to light the cigarette and grinned.
“I might,” they purred and Halladr almost leapt out of his own skin.
He snapped the lighter shut, and spun away to stare at the wall as Bandi chuckled through puffs of smoke.
This was the longest five minutes of his life.
Dwag had told him he was too focused on this, that Bandi was a strange little plant with strange hobbies and he should just let it go—but how could he?! The outfits were one thing, but when they started showing up in ones like these—were they a boy or a girl?!
Dwag said they were a boy and he thought that at first too, but they definitely didn’t look like a boy right now! And besides, they were a sylvari, right? How did sylvari work? They apparently copied humans who were like tiny norn as far as Halladr was concerned, but how far did that copy go? I mean they were plants too and plants could be both, right? Boy and girl?
If they were a girl… well it didn’t matter: he was a very very very straight norn man interested in norn women. He was only interested out of intellectual curiosity, that was all. But you can’t just ask that, right?! You can’t just ask if someone’s a boy or a girl, right?!
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