#and that moral code reacting to the Everything when they were about to wipe minthara in the prison bit ???

[sunsetsoft]

📩 ❛ i'm here for business — not pleasure. ❜ from minthara for your bg3 verse! @likemosaic 🔆 assorted dialogue – accepting!

ellie nodded solemnly. solemnity has been what he's decided is the best way to interact with minthara. not because he wants to limit their conversations, but because minthara intimidated the hells out of her, and something told the cleric that revealing any amount of the sympathy she felt for the paladin would not be taken as the attempt at connection elinor desperately wanted. they, undeniably, had different methods, different attitudes (you couldn't pay elinor to consume those tadpoles, regardless of the power they promised). but they were allies. and elinor did care for her, whether minthara liked it or not. 

"i think the same can be said for most of us." it's not dismissive, meant to confirm minthara's approach. after all, wouldn't everyone here rather be elsewhere? despite ellie's resolve, and her own words testifying the same, that business was business, he couldn't help a curiousity that washed over him. it might be better not to ask, but the worst that could happen would be that minthara would use all her noble poise to tell her to fuck off. and elinor had faced worse. 

"what... what is your idea of pleasure? i mean, what are you going to do, after we deal with the absolute?"