If the calm so far was irritating, it would probably only get worse from here, because Aurus didn't show the slightest sign of rising to to Hakkyuu's anger. He breathed a slight sigh, returned the mirror to the place he'd gotten it from, then turned to the boy again before answering.
"In the past four days an elder dragon has awoken. It has flown into this desert from somewhere to the north, presumably in Ascalon, and it has killed the only dragon to ever have allied herself with the free people of Tyria. It has manifest a new spawn of crystalline aberrations that are out there somewhere haunting the land to the north of us, and on my doorstep I have seen crystalline monsters of another kind--humanoid, hovering, and malicious, with eyes in rows like insects' legs.
"I have walked more than two nights in the desert, I have split the skull of a thing I have no name for, and I have carried a half-dead human boy back to my home, not knowing if he would ever manage to wake up."
Here he gave Hakkyuu a very sharp look and said, with slow, deliberate pointedness, "Do you see me laughing?
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"In the past four days an elder dragon has awoken. It has flown into this desert from somewhere to the north, presumably in Ascalon, and it has killed the only dragon to ever have allied herself with the free people of Tyria. It has manifest a new spawn of crystalline aberrations that are out there somewhere haunting the land to the north of us, and on my doorstep I have seen crystalline monsters of another kind--humanoid, hovering, and malicious, with eyes in rows like insects' legs.
"I have walked more than two nights in the desert, I have split the skull of a thing I have no name for, and I have carried a half-dead human boy back to my home, not knowing if he would ever manage to wake up."
Here he gave Hakkyuu a very sharp look and said, with slow, deliberate pointedness, "Do you see me laughing?