If you've ever been good at it you're definitely better than me.
[Has he ever used a slingshot? He can't remember. He was actually a very well-behaved child, and while he got up to some stunts as a teenager trying to survive on his own he certainly didn't come out of it as a master slingshooter.
If it weren't for the goddamn darkness hanging over the whole island the ride along the river would be enjoyable, but as it is he's glad when they're well past its spring and the outline of the bridge between Camelot's farmlands and the wilderness leading up to the White Cliffs comes into view in the distance. While it's still far away he already slows his horse down to a trot.]
I guess we'll have to go a good bit further up the river. It'd make no sense for them to offer people rides across right by the bridge... unless they're trying to get them to do it just for fun, but the locals wouldn't be that gullible, I hope.
[He shouldn't be too sure about that. After all how many people would regularly want to cross the river further north, where the Dusklight Woods begin on the Camelot side? Anyone headed for Atys or Elphame would have crossed over sooner. As as if on cue a warbly voice calls out to them from the water.]
Oh, Sir, you should not underestimate the need. One bridge, so far out in the fields, away from the farmhouses... that costs the people time.
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[Has he ever used a slingshot? He can't remember. He was actually a very well-behaved child, and while he got up to some stunts as a teenager trying to survive on his own he certainly didn't come out of it as a master slingshooter.
If it weren't for the goddamn darkness hanging over the whole island the ride along the river would be enjoyable, but as it is he's glad when they're well past its spring and the outline of the bridge between Camelot's farmlands and the wilderness leading up to the White Cliffs comes into view in the distance. While it's still far away he already slows his horse down to a trot.]
I guess we'll have to go a good bit further up the river. It'd make no sense for them to offer people rides across right by the bridge... unless they're trying to get them to do it just for fun, but the locals wouldn't be that gullible, I hope.
[He shouldn't be too sure about that. After all how many people would regularly want to cross the river further north, where the Dusklight Woods begin on the Camelot side? Anyone headed for Atys or Elphame would have crossed over sooner. As as if on cue a warbly voice calls out to them from the water.]
Oh, Sir, you should not underestimate the need. One bridge, so far out in the fields, away from the farmhouses... that costs the people time.