You don't need a knife, the woman says and if there was anything more - or less- reassuring that this woman wasn't a thread it was in how stupid the statement was to her. No adult who knew better would ask a street kid to throw away their knives. Even Rosethorn, who disapproved of them doing so, knew better than to ask her and Briar to not have them on them.
Because of that she doesn't let go of the knife or of her posture - Very much the form of a trapped animal ready to leap and fight for a way out of necessity. Wary and guarded, she shifted on her still healing feet. She wouldn't get very far on her own if she got out of here but for a moment she stares at the woman, blinking in stupid confusion.
"You say that like it's supposed to mean anything to me," she offered after a moment, mouth dipping in a frown, "we were on our way outta Gyongxe to Emelan -" Which aren't names that Joyce knows any more than Evvy knows California or Indiana. She's careful to say she's from Yanjing. Especially with all the Emperor had done recently, she doesn't want to claim the place that's only kindness had been selling her to slavery so she'd find Briar and Rosethorn her birthplace.
"How would you even know they're here?" Here, the way she says it sounds like she's not sure what that it is - With this strange woman who doesn't understand a (former) street kid when she wants it and her weirder Hawkins. What kind of name for a place was that?
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Because of that she doesn't let go of the knife or of her posture - Very much the form of a trapped animal ready to leap and fight for a way out of necessity. Wary and guarded, she shifted on her still healing feet. She wouldn't get very far on her own if she got out of here but for a moment she stares at the woman, blinking in stupid confusion.
"You say that like it's supposed to mean anything to me," she offered after a moment, mouth dipping in a frown, "we were on our way outta Gyongxe to Emelan -" Which aren't names that Joyce knows any more than Evvy knows California or Indiana. She's careful to say she's from Yanjing. Especially with all the Emperor had done recently, she doesn't want to claim the place that's only kindness had been selling her to slavery so she'd find Briar and Rosethorn her birthplace.
"How would you even know they're here?" Here, the way she says it sounds like she's not sure what that it is - With this strange woman who doesn't understand a (former) street kid when she wants it and her weirder Hawkins. What kind of name for a place was that?