Sun Mote Copse Demeter's sorrow

Eljay bobbed his head in agreement that it was rather a sad story. He frowned as he tried to make the best of it in his head, but it was difficult. When Wraen offered she had an alternative, he therefore immediately found his interest piqued.

However, the more he heard, the sadder the story became. So not only did Hades kidnap someone's daughter into the underworld, but he also was not just a villain, but simply someone who was exposed to the bad living circumstances of the underworld? Like a wolf who'd lived in a slough his whole life and merely got to look at the wolves living happily in, well, the copse, for example?

It made Eljay feel like crying, but he obviously didn't want to break down in front of Wraen, whom he'd just met. He'd look like a total idiot. So instead he murmured, That's... That makes it even sadder. Beautiful in a distorted kind of way, but Eljay wasn't really one for appreciating sad but beautiful situations. So it left him mostly sad. Anyway, he decided not to linger on it and said, a little bit of a white lie, That was good. Well, it was good, but the white lie was in the way that he made it sound like he wasn't saddened by it. Or tried to, anyway. You're quite the story teller. I bet the pups all love you, right? If he was a great storyteller like Wraen surely they'd love him too, Eljay thought to himself. But while caring he was hardly a storyteller pro.