That? If true, then that raised all sorts of other questions. One could be being entirely honest, yet say things that weren't actually true.
He frowned more, but took the last items out of that box, setting them onto the shelf with the others, and then carefully set that box, too, aside to dry out again. And the tape came away from the next box easily enough....
Still crouched as he gathered things up from this one, he didn't seem to need to think about it as he fanned his shield out from his forearm, to use its inside to help him hold more items at once. No sense in not trying to be efficient about this, after all. The few remaining packages were on the floor, and he wasn't certain he trusted their stability enough to lift them again while still laden with their cargo, whatever it was.
"And the... 'trying situation' in question... includes what, precisely?" He had guesses as to what was meant, but he wanted to hear it from this person. What did he consider significant enough to qualify as part of the current mess, versus the status quo, here and now?
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He frowned more, but took the last items out of that box, setting them onto the shelf with the others, and then carefully set that box, too, aside to dry out again. And the tape came away from the next box easily enough....
Still crouched as he gathered things up from this one, he didn't seem to need to think about it as he fanned his shield out from his forearm, to use its inside to help him hold more items at once. No sense in not trying to be efficient about this, after all. The few remaining packages were on the floor, and he wasn't certain he trusted their stability enough to lift them again while still laden with their cargo, whatever it was.
"And the... 'trying situation' in question... includes what, precisely?" He had guesses as to what was meant, but he wanted to hear it from this person. What did he consider significant enough to qualify as part of the current mess, versus the status quo, here and now?