Redtail Rise mountains that are stacked with fear

Ashlar didn't straighten when the other man relented, though it did confirm what he'd thought the day before. He was kind, even when the healer had caught him at a bad time. It did not need to be okay but Ratio said it was regardless. He still might have left to spare the intrusion, but the question held him there.

Yes. I'm j.... uh, sort of.... learning. He winced internally as he fumbled it. When he was nervous his tongue never seemed to cooperate. But he had made it clear that he could leave and Ratio had not asked him to - instead he had invited conversation. Maybe it was okay to continue?

Are you a warrior? Everyone so far had been, and with Avicus' test it seemed he would be. But how he saw himself, and how Avicus saw him... did it differ, as it had for Ashlar at first? He wanted to know this.