Elias choice to try to make it to his room alone isn't hurting anyone else, so Xie Lian's only concern is that he not end up hurting himself.
"Yes, I imagine that it could. Land can be expensive, for one. Though there are probably a few more steps in between what I'm used to and your world before elevators."
"You aren't from a particularly technologically advanced world, then?"
Making small talk is easy, to the point Elias hardly has to think about it as he focuses both on making sure his legs will support him all the way to his cabin and that he doesn't look like he's trying to focus on that.
"The depends on how you define technologically advanced, doesn't it?"
Small talk provides an easy cover to pretend not to be thinking about anything else. He doesn't feel that it would be useful or polite to start questioning Elias before he can sit down, and it allows him to keep an eye on Elias without seeming like he's hovering.
"It is all somewhat relative, of course. The world I was born into is nothing like the world I lived in two hundred years later, but at the time we were all convinced we had reached the pinnacle of achievement."
Foolish, really. There was always more to learn and discover. Like how well he's keeping to his feet just now. With an audience, he's even more determined not to show that he's all that badly effected by the after-effects of death.
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"Yes, I imagine that it could. Land can be expensive, for one. Though there are probably a few more steps in between what I'm used to and your world before elevators."
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Making small talk is easy, to the point Elias hardly has to think about it as he focuses both on making sure his legs will support him all the way to his cabin and that he doesn't look like he's trying to focus on that.
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Small talk provides an easy cover to pretend not to be thinking about anything else. He doesn't feel that it would be useful or polite to start questioning Elias before he can sit down, and it allows him to keep an eye on Elias without seeming like he's hovering.
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Foolish, really. There was always more to learn and discover. Like how well he's keeping to his feet just now. With an audience, he's even more determined not to show that he's all that badly effected by the after-effects of death.
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He shakes his head, thinking of the conversations he's had.
"Though I suspect I don't have to present you with such an argument."