Their guide approached the eight and whispered words Kavan and Zerio could not here, words that made the elders nod, purse their lips, and then stare at the strangers with judgmental gazes. Bowing respectfully as he had always done for Bhryell’s bhydáni, hoping to ease their misgivings and express his integrity, Kavan murmured, “Thank you for seeing us. I am…” “We know who you are.” The woman who spoke, as ancient, he believed, as Tibhyan had been at the time of his death, lowered her gaze to the exposed pendants at his breast. Those on either side of her stared as well. Ignoring the nervous flutter in his belly, Kavan bowed again. Stories about him were widespread in most of the Sovereignties, but Kavan had never performed in Elyria beyond his home town and Hes Dhágdhuán and the kyne’s palace in Clarys. He had not considered how far the mythos of the White Bard of Bhryell might have traveled.
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Date: 2023-12-31 06:14 pm (UTC)Bowing respectfully as he had always done for Bhryell’s bhydáni, hoping to ease their misgivings and express his integrity, Kavan murmured, “Thank you for seeing us. I am…”
“We know who you are.” The woman who spoke, as ancient, he believed, as Tibhyan had been at the time of his death, lowered her gaze to the exposed pendants at his breast. Those on either side of her stared as well.
Ignoring the nervous flutter in his belly, Kavan bowed again. Stories about him were widespread in most of the Sovereignties, but Kavan had never performed in Elyria beyond his home town and Hes Dhágdhuán and the kyne’s palace in Clarys. He had not considered how far the mythos of the White Bard of Bhryell might have traveled.