Faris had a knack for finding things.
Some places called it witchcraft, these days, but those places likely would have found an excuse to burn him anyhow.
It wasn't particularly glamorous, finding things. Wasn't going to win him any fights or build him any empires. It kept him alive and it kept him eating, and that was more than most people got.
Nomads all tended to smell the same, blood and sand and smoke. Some of them smelled like gunpowder. Faris smelled like aloe.
By the time he got to the Desert Rose, he'd been away from people for quite some time. Maybe too long. It took a minute to adjust when he walked in the door: his eyes to the light, his nose to the smells, his ears to the sound of voices. Everything felt small, too small, claustrophobic without the open air and the open sky.
It occurred to him that he ought to get out the way of the door instead of standing in front of it trying to get his bearings, so he sidestepped, pulled down the rucksack that had been hanging over his shoulder so it hit the floor with a thunk. Pulling down his hood, he ran his hand over his braids, blinked slowly to try and force his eyes to adjust.
He hadn't realized until he came indoors just how filthy he probably was. Not that anyone here was likely to care, not if he gave them something made it worth not caring. Didn't make him feel any better about it. They had women and they had liquor, but did they have running water? Did they have food that wasn't half salt by weight?
Brown eyes found the owner as easily as they found anything else. It looked, for a moment, as if he were watching her; he was actually trying to remind himself how to speak, to make noise and to move his mouth into the appropriate shapes.
"What do you have?" he asked finally, in a voice that sounded as ragged as it did rusty.
Some places called it witchcraft, these days, but those places likely would have found an excuse to burn him anyhow.
It wasn't particularly glamorous, finding things. Wasn't going to win him any fights or build him any empires. It kept him alive and it kept him eating, and that was more than most people got.
Nomads all tended to smell the same, blood and sand and smoke. Some of them smelled like gunpowder. Faris smelled like aloe.
By the time he got to the Desert Rose, he'd been away from people for quite some time. Maybe too long. It took a minute to adjust when he walked in the door: his eyes to the light, his nose to the smells, his ears to the sound of voices. Everything felt small, too small, claustrophobic without the open air and the open sky.
It occurred to him that he ought to get out the way of the door instead of standing in front of it trying to get his bearings, so he sidestepped, pulled down the rucksack that had been hanging over his shoulder so it hit the floor with a thunk. Pulling down his hood, he ran his hand over his braids, blinked slowly to try and force his eyes to adjust.
He hadn't realized until he came indoors just how filthy he probably was. Not that anyone here was likely to care, not if he gave them something made it worth not caring. Didn't make him feel any better about it. They had women and they had liquor, but did they have running water? Did they have food that wasn't half salt by weight?
Brown eyes found the owner as easily as they found anything else. It looked, for a moment, as if he were watching her; he was actually trying to remind himself how to speak, to make noise and to move his mouth into the appropriate shapes.
"What do you have?" he asked finally, in a voice that sounded as ragged as it did rusty.
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