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 {{wst>pinkgothic|An-uxhwi seemed sceptical about Evrith's reasons, although clearly not yet willing to accuse her of simply //wanting an excuse// to steal books. "I had the impression that judging how long people will be away from a location was a matter you are skilled at gauging. Are you concerned the skill might fail you in a crucial moment?"}}
+{{wst>shyriath|Evrith traced a downward arc with her muzzle. "You'll recall, back in the mine, that I didn't realize that the overseer was removing you from my cell until only shortly before it occurred. Being able to foresee things doesn't always mean having much time or room to react to them; standing around in hostile ground is not something to be done unless one has no other choice."
+She glanced in the direction of Oraa again, and her expression hardened. "The more I consider this, the more I get the sense that it's important that we have some of those books. When we get closer to the town, I think I'm going to go retrieve some. If neither of you would rather be involved, that's fine - it might be easier to remain undetected by myself anyway. I can catch up with you afterwards."}}
+{{wst>pinkgothic|An-uxhwi didn't like Evrith's plan, in part for the reasons she considered it a good idea - after all, if dangers sometimes surprised her, they might surprise her in Oraa.
+He had previously assumed the trouble was, both in getting caught for the mine in the first place and in the scenario she described, that she had not been //looking// for the dangers at the time, and that a careful approach could not be so foiled. But now she was implying that sometimes, even if one was looking for them, the dangers of past and future might find one ill-prepared, regardless.
+"Separating seems like a potentially poor idea if you're concerned about unseen dangers," An-uxhwi observed, his tone chiefly one of curiosity. "Is there a means for you to expand on this... sense? What reason draws you to them to such a degree?"
+He sounded as though he wanted to weigh whether he could make himself accompany her to a theft. In his experience so far, Evrith usually had reasons for things, so it did not seem unreasonable to him that she had Seen something that made the acquisition of such a book pivotal for their continued survival.}}
+{{wst>shyriath|"Only that the range of positive futures seems to be expanded," Evrith replied, "if we have some of those books than if we don't." Her voice was starting to betray a certain amount distress.
+There were some questions about why the future looked the way it did that could not be immediately answered. Evrith knew this, and was used to it, but those who couldn't see it had a hard time trusting it. While she got no sense that this conversation would lead to a rift, it made her uncomfortable in its similarities to those she'd had with her brother.
+He'd demanded - shouted, screamed sometimes - //How do you know?// It hadn't been enough for him to know the possibilities; he'd wanted to know the reasons, and far too often she hadn't been able to tell him, or what she'd told him failed to satisfy. The answer he'd really wanted escaped him: the one telling him why his life had been made a living Abyss, and how to escape it.
+Now, as then, things would be much easier if they'd just listen to her and stop arguing.}}
+{{wst>pinkgothic|An unsatisfying answer, but perhaps the best he was going to get out of her. "And what are the chances of success if you enter alone? What are the chances of success if I accompany you?" An-uxhwi asked, pursuing his curiosity about the matter in disregard for the trace amounts of distress in her voice, too absorbed in sorting out the hypotheticals to really notice.}}
+{{wst>shyriath|"Or me, for that matter," Shyriath added. He still looked profoundly skeptical, but Evrith sensed that he knew that trying to stop her from going when she was determined to go would be a difficult task.
+She wasn't sure she wanted either of them along; one thief was harder to spot than two or three. But peering into the future, she didn't see that it made much difference. An-uxhwi knew how to minimize his chances of being spotted, and Shyriath could probably mislead anyone who couldn't be avoided.
+Aloud she said, with a certain amount of reluctance, "I don't think it would hurt anything if the two of you came along."}}
+{{wst>pinkgothic|"Then let us try to obtain them together," An-uxhwi relented. It was clear from his tone and body language that he didn't enjoy the prospect of stealing from anyone, but technically, it would be Evrith doing the stealing - he was simply along to do his sworn duty of protecting her, inasmuch as he was capable of doing.}}