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[adamantlyardent]

The tabloids certainly would enjoy speculating on seeing such an older-looking man trailing me around, yes. Don't take offense if I tell you that I'm not exactly the bodyguarding type, but I'm really not. Honestly, more often than not I seem to be the one in need of protecting, despite my efforts to the contrary.

[borntobebard]

Older-looking man?!

[adamantlyardent]

Don't you dare take offense to that; it's plain to see!
Unless humans in your realm age wildly differently than what I'm used to, in which case, that is also not my fault -- I would hardly know.

[borntobebard]

I have every right to be offended! My youthful appearance is being brought into question. I ask for a guide and for my trouble you insinuate I'm old!

[adamantlyardent]

Not OLD, OLDER. Older than me! How was this not clear?

[borntobebard]

It has the word "old" in it! I dare say I'm barely above your own age!

[adamantlyardent]

Right, then. How old ARE you?

[borntobebard]

[ The most delayed reply. ]

20. Yourself?

[adamantlyardent]

[you are SUCH a liar. learn to softball! like this:] 19.
I beg your pardon. You maintain the appearance of older humans than 20 in this realm.

[borntobebard]

[ At least he got her age out of her. Or did he?! ]

It was what I believe they call a typo. I meant 30
s
30s
In the 30s.

[adamantlyardent]

[gawds.]

Can you at least sympathize with my concern? Optics mean a lot in this world.

[borntobebard]

Yes, I suppose so. In my world humans, elves, dwarves, gnomes and the like all age at different paces. It can be hard to keep track of.
But really. "Such an older-looking man trailing me around". You make me sound like a lech.

[adamantlyardent]

Because it's exactly what OTHER people would think! Honestly, is that so hard to fathom?

[borntobebard]

That's not always what people assume! If I saw a man with a younger woman I might assume he's her father.
Oh gods, no, that's worse. I can't be seen like that. Never mind.

[adamantlyardent]

Cousin. Older, full-human cousin. If anyone asks, that's acceptable, right?

[borntobebard]

Does best friend simply not fly in this world?

[adamantlyardent]

Not between an 18-year old and a 30-year old!

[borntobebard]

19

[adamantlyardent]

18. See, we both can lie.
Anyway, my point stands. It's weird, and has the potential to paint you in a bad light. Lots of musicians in this realm get negative reception for similar things, so you ought to be more mindful of it!

[borntobebard]

I thought as much.
Fine. Fine. Your concern is noted and appreciated. Cousin would indeed be a better title than lech. You know I've oft been mistaken as part-elf myself.

[adamantlyardent]

I'm not sure I see it, but very well. It's an acceptable cover: A half-cousin, newly arrived, needing help navigating the world as it is.

[borntobebard]

It's my youthful good looks, so they say. You don't see that?

[adamantlyardent]

I wasn't raised around humans, so I can't say I can share the same lens of perspective in such a way; elves are a wholly different thing entirely as far as "youthful good looks" are concerned.

[borntobebard]

Oh. Was it in Golden Palaces or more like hiding away in the woods? Most the elves I know of these days tend to squirrel themselves away in woodlands. Scoia'tael; roughly translates to squirrel, in fact.

[adamantlyardent]

Not so grandiose as all that...or at least, not bedecked in gold. The city I grew up in was ornate, but more akin to replicating the ornate aesthetic of the nature we were within. And it’s not so much hiding out of necessity as it is...being willfully secluded? The city kept to itself for the most part, far as I knew it. Not that I’m an expert on its geopolitics.