Her mouth quirks at one corner, though it doesn't quite reach her eyes.
"Do you want me to leave you be? I can't tell, and I'm terrible at guessing. We can run the dogs if you don't, I suppose. Or gather enough rocks out here to put together something like a chess lesson. Perhaps Ci and Liranan would like to learn. Or a terrible card game using leaves, where everything is a wild card and no one ever loses. Or some other option that you'd like, as that wasn't mean to be an exhaustive list."
A hesitation.
"Or we can go inside and I can show you the library? They have maps. And a lot of engineering manuals. You're interested in siege engines, if I remember right?"
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Her mouth quirks at one corner, though it doesn't quite reach her eyes.
"Do you want me to leave you be? I can't tell, and I'm terrible at guessing. We can run the dogs if you don't, I suppose. Or gather enough rocks out here to put together something like a chess lesson. Perhaps Ci and Liranan would like to learn. Or a terrible card game using leaves, where everything is a wild card and no one ever loses. Or some other option that you'd like, as that wasn't mean to be an exhaustive list."
A hesitation.
"Or we can go inside and I can show you the library? They have maps. And a lot of engineering manuals. You're interested in siege engines, if I remember right?"