"You're not one for talking Trezlan." Erchus has set up a small fire near the remains of the car, he hadn't moved me, I was currently paralyzed and chilled, he's found a blanket from a nearby building and put it over me, it didn't feel like it was working, but I couldn't really tell him that. Erchus had built the fire I assumed to also keep me warm and it wasn't doing much either.
"It's ok I'm not really a conversation person either, fishing is lonely work most of the time and people are always scared to talk out of fear of scaring the fish, I don't think they have ears though and they are in water, so its not like they can hear us when we talk anyway." He stirred the fire and I looked on unable to say anything, "If I was a better healer I could help you, but I'm a terrible healer, its why I got kicked out of the order in the first place, I mean sure I fished a lot but its not like that was the problem, no it was that whole cure the sick thing that they were concerned I couldn't do, which is total bullshit modern medicine can do so much than using life force to heal! I don't understand why it was so important to be able to heal!" Its interesting when you are a silent observer to someone else just talking, I'm sure plenty of people have thought the same with me, but this was a new moment for me so I was just watching in a weird sense of awe over what was going on.
"I did learn to swing the hammer though, that's got count for something right? I know you can't say anything but I have skill here, its not healing skill, but being able to swing a hammer like this has got to count with the Gods for something?" I could hear a sound in his voice like sadness I got the distinct impression he thought I was dying, which while sweet scared me because it meant if my paralysis didn't wear off soon he might have decided to do something humane with his huge hammer. "I don't know why I'm telling you all this, its not like you can respond or help me, I guess I've just been running from it this whole time and why I fish all the time, its easier than confronting my failings, I mean I didn't even come to this country to fish, I came to help the people here and then when I found no people here I decided I'd fish instead, because why not right?" He chuckled to himself.
"Ahh gods Trezlan I'm as confused as you are by whats going on here is what I'm getting at, I can't help these people anymore than you can, and now with that creature emerging and trying to kill us or capture us or whatever I'm even more confused. Well this has been healthy but if its all right for you I'm going to get to sleep Trezlan I hope you feel better in the morning or... " He left it at that, but I knew what the or meant, or he'd kill me. Though I was not really comforted by him going to sleep because I also knew that the creature with its long arm and paralysis had intended on capturing us not killing us, but it was probably not the creature who did the capturing, and those ones were still out there, waiting, and watching, and I couldn't move at all. So it wasn't exactly a "sleep tight" situation let me tell you.
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