[ sympathy mixes in with his own tired sadness, the grim feeling that this whole fiasco instills - but he's got his fingers sunken into something hopeful and stubborn. they're all trying to cope.

i can't say that alfyn does not look at gale's boobs. it's mostly to check him over, his recovery from the weekend, but the man has eyes that work. he blinks at the changes - refocuses at the mention of rondo. ]

Bet that was part of his inspiration for the whole thing. [ enrich the scholars in your life. ] I added the books me and Nina took from the Academy, but I figured... if we had the chance, we should keep addin' stuff up, for Rondo.