Stone's Throw

[Andreas Amell]

"Oh no, not at all," Andreas protests with a wave of his hand. "There are magicks out there that could confirm a blood link between us easily enough. If... if you were willing, that is. To find out."

[Charon Tethras]

"...what good would it do me?" he asks, hesitantly. "You said you're the family of a Light -- were you adopted?"

[Andreas Amell]

"What? No. Well, my mother was-- it's my grandpa that's the Light," Andreas explains almost absently, his mind mulling over where he could get ahold of a scroll of Lineage without said relation finding out before he can even finish reading it. 

[Charon Tethras]

"So your mother is your birth mother? For sure?" presses Charon, trying not to let show the yearning that's opened up inside him. 

[Andreas Amell]

"Yeah..?" Andreas hesitates, then adds, "but she's human. It's my, umm, it's her ex that's catfolk. I, uh, I don't... really know him well. He, uh, he left when I was basically an infant because--" Andreas cuts off abruptly, breath seizing in his lung as a terrifying, wonderful, impossible thought hits him.

[Charon Tethras]

"Did he take a baby with him? And then dump that baby in Sweetwater with no parents?"

[Andreas Amell]

"What? I-- no, I don't-- Sweetwater? How did--" Andrea shakes his head rapidly. "We need to get a Lineage scroll." He briefly thinks of the time, of how he'll be late, but casts it off even quicker. "Right now."

[Charon Tethras]

"I guess you're buying so it's up to you," sighs Charon, regretfully thinking of his bath. "This way, I know a shop that's open late."

[Andreas Amell]

"You know a scroll shop that sells Lineage?" Andreas asks with some surprise. That's usually only used by Alydrea, Bastion and Ciren temples.

[Charon Tethras]

"I mean, I don't do that spell, so no, but I know an assorted magical goods shop that has all sorts of things, and they might have one."

[Andreas Amell]

"I very much doubt it, it's a very niche item," Andreas says with a shake of his head. "No, we'll need a temple of... Bastion," he decides. Too great a chance of Grandpa or Grandne finding out immediately if we seek Alydrea's help and Auntie Seli if we go to Ciren. "Ah, they also have bathhouses I could... treat you." Please.

[Charon Tethras]

But Charon balks. "That's a huge waste. I know a shortcut to the Temple of Living Waters, we can stop off at a catfolk bathhouse on the way. A third the price, just as good."

[Andreas Amell]

"Bastion's temple will also wash your clothes and the waters have a mild healing effect," Andreas counters. "Won't fix a knife would or the like, but strained muscles, sore feet, blisters?" He snaps his fingers. "Come on, it's my treat, remember?"

[Charon Tethras]

Must be nice. "Tell you what, i'll do the catfolk bathhouse but I'll take the difference in gold," he snarks, as he starts moving. 

[Andreas Amell]

"...that's not how gifts work," Andreas says flatly.