but you may have it, and please take all that you need of the rest, anything I have!”
Frost fastened a baleful eye on the old man. “Let me ask you, friend. First you offer me all your possessions, then all your money, now all your livestock and stores. But what, truly, would you do if my needs were to come to all that you have?”
Urid hesitated, eyes darting, his face tightening to reveal a man grown taut as a sail in a tempest. “I—I suppose that, if you thought you must take it all, you would take it all, and I would find some way to live after that.”
Frost shook his head again, then fixed Urid with a long and sour frown. “Not necessary. But it is remarkable that you cannot see how foolish that answer is. Tell me another thing: How did you come to have that awful little fellow in your home?”
Urid ,
Frost fastened a baleful eye on the old man. “Let me ask you, friend. First you offer me all your possessions, then all your money, now all your livestock and stores. But what, truly, would you do if my needs were to come to all that you have?”
Urid hesitated, eyes darting, his face tightening to reveal a man grown taut as a sail in a tempest. “I—I suppose that, if you thought you must take it all, you would take it all, and I would find some way to live after that.”
Frost shook his head again, then fixed Urid with a long and sour frown. “Not necessary. But it is remarkable that you cannot see how foolish that answer is. Tell me another thing: How did you come to have that awful little fellow in your home?”
Urid ,