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Caleb watches as Frumpkin prowls around the gate, his orange tail swishing back and forth in concentration. Paerin's question hangs in the air, heavy with unspoken warnings. And the wizard hesitates for a moment, considering his answer carefully. “I don’t know, but that is what makes me all the more curious.” Wizards and their insatiable fascination. As unconventional a mage Caleb may be, he is still aware he fits the stereotype.
Anything well protected behind a trap has something valuable to hide—a faint but distinct energy, traces of the Weave, emanates from the book even from this far away. “I have… many things in my life I want to achieve, and I want to learn more.” Caleb's words tumble out, hesitant and guarded. He is cautious to reveal too much of himself to his companions, but Pearin's reluctance only heightens Caleb's unease. Holy men. Every word is measured, as though he's walking across a tightrope with no safety net beneath.
Caleb's attention is immediately drawn to the sound of Frumpkin's meow. The book in question is far too large for the small cat, even for a familiar.
Paerin has, bluntly, had far too much of forbidden knowledge and magical temptation for a lifetime; if given the choice, he’d be perfectly content letting the most of it rot somewhere far below. If he ever was a man who was drawn to such things, that man was jaded and given a harsh dose of reality years ago.
And so: he doesn’t watch the book so much as the wizard, his mouth thinned at the corners and his brow creased just barely. There’s a number of thoughts that dance unsaid, but for now he swallows them all. Instead, he watches the cat, and gives the familiar enough space to wend about. He has no better solution; his solution to traps is often blunt force, and while he can occasionally manage some magical traps with his own channeled magic, it’s only specific sorts that are sensitive to holy magic. ( For he is, clearly, a holy man. )
" Hope yer cat has thumbs, " he says with some dubiety, though he knows well enough that familiars are more capable than alley cats. " What’s in this book, anyhow? "
#☼*・゚ Friends — ↳ oathwilled#☼*・゚ Interaction — ↳ paerin riverwind#☼*・゚ Verse — ↳ baldur’s gate 3#☼*・゚ Muse — ↳ caleb widogast#( holy man hdjkshkldsalk )
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