There are indeed profoundly upsetting things going on, but one of them at least is comparatively minor compared to the rest of his life.
Things like the noise levels and the lack of fun are low scale and more easily adapted to, or run away from. In this case walked away from. "There's occasionally others out here. They may be fae but they're not pixies. They seem nice. Very inquisitive."
Uncomfortably so in fact, to the point where he'd balked not out of suspicion but dislike of social interaction of any stripe.
At least if nothing else Cloud did not seem intent on causing problems for the forest, its rulers, or the unfortunate little town outside. "..When Slayd said there would be entertainment," he adds, slowly, "I expected something other than ... dancing, or humiliating oneself in public attempting to bite an onion." There were countless other games and all of them were the same tier of obviously meant to be laughed at, not with. "They could have worked in at least one more combat oriented challenge, that would have been more fun."
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Things like the noise levels and the lack of fun are low scale and more easily adapted to, or run away from. In this case walked away from. "There's occasionally others out here. They may be fae but they're not pixies. They seem nice. Very inquisitive."
Uncomfortably so in fact, to the point where he'd balked not out of suspicion but dislike of social interaction of any stripe.
At least if nothing else Cloud did not seem intent on causing problems for the forest, its rulers, or the unfortunate little town outside. "..When Slayd said there would be entertainment," he adds, slowly, "I expected something other than ... dancing, or humiliating oneself in public attempting to bite an onion." There were countless other games and all of them were the same tier of obviously meant to be laughed at, not with. "They could have worked in at least one more combat oriented challenge, that would have been more fun."