Kai snorts- vengeance for Kai might be slightly less horrible than vengeance for Tahren would be, but that's not a sure thing and even then it would be very slight. "Good," he says with a nod. So it seems... that is that.
The rest of them don't come back immediately, and when they do Ramad gets about the welcome he'd expect- as in, Zeide and Tahren both stare him down as if daring him to even think about anything, Tenes giving the others a slightly confused look but then nodding politely, with Sanja being the only one who seems genuinely happy to see him. Dahin more or less acts like he's not there.
Kai doesn't speak much for the rest of the evening, the group having gone out to get some supplies and settling around the fire. Sanja picks up most of the conversation, asking Ramad where he was and then proceeding to grill him on anything else that comes to mind- she's smart enough to know that there's something uncomfortable about his reappearance. There's a little bit of Witchspeak between Tenes and Ziede, probably explaining why the hell Ramad hasn't been immediately chased out, and if Sanja runs out of conversation Dahin will take over with some incredibly niche history that Ramad would still probably find interesting. But unless Ramad tries to draw him in again, Kai won't participate at all.
It's... a better reception than he was hoping for, all told. He answers most of Sanja's questions as best he can and if he's cagey about a few of them, well, some of them are maybe a little too pointed and searching and he doesn't reprimand her for them either.
It's all far more than he could have asked for, but he still feels a tiny spot of hurt that Kai seems to not want to participate even so. He knows that's... incredibly foolish of him to feel, but he feels it anyway, examines it that night when they've settled down to rest, turning it over in his head. In the end, though, he's not entirely sure what sits more ill with him-- Kai's lack of participation with him, or the lack of participation with everyone else. Was he like that before? Ramad is ashamed to realize he has no idea.
He does behave himself, though, whatever the others might feel about him. He won't go out of his way to "prove" himself in the coming days, he knows that's a foolish concept. But he does try to make himself useful all the same.
(And if Kai avoiding him and the others being uncomfortable about him means he ends up "babysitting" more often than not, well, he does have a soft spot where Sanja is concerned, it seems, which he feels no need to attempt to explain to anybody. That he might be the one actually being "babysat" here only makes him grin a bit more.)
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Date: 2025-06-17 08:19 pm (UTC)The rest of them don't come back immediately, and when they do Ramad gets about the welcome he'd expect- as in, Zeide and Tahren both stare him down as if daring him to even think about anything, Tenes giving the others a slightly confused look but then nodding politely, with Sanja being the only one who seems genuinely happy to see him. Dahin more or less acts like he's not there.
Kai doesn't speak much for the rest of the evening, the group having gone out to get some supplies and settling around the fire. Sanja picks up most of the conversation, asking Ramad where he was and then proceeding to grill him on anything else that comes to mind- she's smart enough to know that there's something uncomfortable about his reappearance. There's a little bit of Witchspeak between Tenes and Ziede, probably explaining why the hell Ramad hasn't been immediately chased out, and if Sanja runs out of conversation Dahin will take over with some incredibly niche history that Ramad would still probably find interesting. But unless Ramad tries to draw him in again, Kai won't participate at all.
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Date: 2025-06-17 08:54 pm (UTC)It's all far more than he could have asked for, but he still feels a tiny spot of hurt that Kai seems to not want to participate even so. He knows that's... incredibly foolish of him to feel, but he feels it anyway, examines it that night when they've settled down to rest, turning it over in his head. In the end, though, he's not entirely sure what sits more ill with him-- Kai's lack of participation with him, or the lack of participation with everyone else. Was he like that before? Ramad is ashamed to realize he has no idea.
He does behave himself, though, whatever the others might feel about him. He won't go out of his way to "prove" himself in the coming days, he knows that's a foolish concept. But he does try to make himself useful all the same.
(And if Kai avoiding him and the others being uncomfortable about him means he ends up "babysitting" more often than not, well, he does have a soft spot where Sanja is concerned, it seems, which he feels no need to attempt to explain to anybody. That he might be the one actually being "babysat" here only makes him grin a bit more.)