He cocked his head to the side as he considered her offer, bent at the waist and furrowed his brow and clicked his tongue. "It is a very fine thing," he said finally, "but it is still, in the end, a thing. I do not trade for things, pretty girl. What would I do with them, when I have all that I could need?"
He could always trade it to someone else later for something better, but he'd never been much good at delayed gratification.
"You must offer me something I can use – something you will not need, with this new voice of yours. Will you need your eyes, now that you can ask what there is to be seen? Will you need a lovely face, when you have a lovely voice? The steps to dance, when you can have others dance for you?"
Something he could eat, he did not say, because to know that it was gone for good frightened mortals awfully. It was not as if he would have traded them back, anyway, even if he had not taken anything of the sort.
It seemed that he was looming just near enough to be nervous, and so he backed away, moving like a glittering smoke to sit in the grass with one leg crossed over the other. "Surely you have something of the sort that you do not mind giving me. Your mouth, maybe? It cannot carry words, and I could get much more use of it than you."
He could always trade it to someone else later for something better, but he'd never been much good at delayed gratification.
"You must offer me something I can use – something you will not need, with this new voice of yours. Will you need your eyes, now that you can ask what there is to be seen? Will you need a lovely face, when you have a lovely voice? The steps to dance, when you can have others dance for you?"
Something he could eat, he did not say, because to know that it was gone for good frightened mortals awfully. It was not as if he would have traded them back, anyway, even if he had not taken anything of the sort.
It seemed that he was looming just near enough to be nervous, and so he backed away, moving like a glittering smoke to sit in the grass with one leg crossed over the other. "Surely you have something of the sort that you do not mind giving me. Your mouth, maybe? It cannot carry words, and I could get much more use of it than you."
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