Snippet #1519406

-Outside the Pack camp-

Thomas felt a moment of anxiety that he pushed to the back of his mind. The best way to sell a role was to believe it with all your mind. So he built a fortress inside his mind, one that hid the real him and left only what he would want someone else to see on the outside. The man he was pretending to be would be a bit worried, but he wouldn’t see any real harm in one slim girl standing along side the road. He filled the front of his mind with how tired he was, how sore, and how much he was looking forward to the end of his journey. When his horse pulled to a stop, he reached forward and stroked it’s neck, trying to calm it. Then he looked over and the girl and smiled charmingly.
“Beggin’ your pardon miss. I didn’t know that I might be crossing paths with a parcel of land that someone might be callin’ their own. If you’d be so kind as to point out the paths that I shouldn’t be wanderin’ down, I’d be glad to go on my way.”

He wanted to call upon his own Enlightenment, but given that the girl almost certainly had caused something to happen with his horse, then there was a chance that she could detect anything that he might try to do. He shifted a bit and glanced sidelong at the girl, sinking deeper into the role that he was portraying.
“As for my business young miss, while I might ask why you think you have the right to be askin’ me that, I’ll just say that it happens to be my own.”