Yngvi can't help it when she says that because it sounds wrong, his face screwing up. Outsiders not having weight or stake when-- well Thranduil's in charge of their whole research division, he's always been involved in things and when it comes to being an outsider he's not just a rifter, he's a bloody elf. A tall elf. Has enough of something about him that the Dalish'd take a shine to.] How d'you--
[He stops. Considers d'you actually wanna do this because she speaks like a lady, holds herself up like one even from somewhere else, and Yngvi knows who he is. What he is. Isn't smart enough to go asking things. (Is. But doesn't think it. Talks himself out of it outside of the few trusted people who'll have the patience for it.)] I mean you're here, aren't you? S'not like you don't got weight or stakes in things. Orzammar says 'trade happens' like the Carta somehow aren't involved, don't mean we don't exist y'know? [It's a bad idea to bring those up in the same breath, he's grateful for the nug in his hands.] Poor man should come first the way I see it, who looks out for the poor man when other people can do things that the poor man can't?
[It feels very bold to say it, but he does make himself look her dead in the face so he can at least say he did that much if he goes recounting the story after.]
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Yngvi can't help it when she says that because it sounds wrong, his face screwing up. Outsiders not having weight or stake when-- well Thranduil's in charge of their whole research division, he's always been involved in things and when it comes to being an outsider he's not just a rifter, he's a bloody elf. A tall elf. Has enough of something about him that the Dalish'd take a shine to.] How d'you--
[He stops. Considers d'you actually wanna do this because she speaks like a lady, holds herself up like one even from somewhere else, and Yngvi knows who he is. What he is. Isn't smart enough to go asking things. (Is. But doesn't think it. Talks himself out of it outside of the few trusted people who'll have the patience for it.)] I mean you're here, aren't you? S'not like you don't got weight or stakes in things. Orzammar says 'trade happens' like the Carta somehow aren't involved, don't mean we don't exist y'know? [It's a bad idea to bring those up in the same breath, he's grateful for the nug in his hands.] Poor man should come first the way I see it, who looks out for the poor man when other people can do things that the poor man can't?
[It feels very bold to say it, but he does make himself look her dead in the face so he can at least say he did that much if he goes recounting the story after.]