Not at all.
Sacha’s reply to her probing about divinity is immediate - careless, even, in the brashly confident way he throws out an answer without even looking at her. Rather than meet those lilac eyes, his gaze remains impermanent and unconcerned, flickering curiously over the crowd that surrounds them, disregarding the seriousness in her tone and discarding the question as quickly as it was asked. (She’s lucky not to witness his subpar social skills.) Divinity has nothing to do with me, he continues. A smoky silver curl falls over his eye as he finally turns to face her. Death does.
It is a simple fact, relayed with the kind of childish straightforwardness that’s typical for Sacha. Perhaps it stems from his overconfidence, perhaps from his stunted phase of maturity - he doesn’t know, and neither does anyone else, and does it matter, really, anyway? It’s still true. All his life he’s faced death, and absence, but never divinity. Mortality but not the gods. Omnipresent as they seem in Deluminian culture, they’ve been silent all Sacha’s life; even if they are as watchful as people believe (a big if in itself), they are passive, and Sacha has never cared much for passivity.
As he looks toward her, scrutinizing, something like surprise flickers over his face. The wind blows both their hair into wild airborne swirls, but it’s not enough to cover Virun’s glassy eyes, with finally make their impression - You’re blind, he points out with mild bewilderment, as if he weren’t expecting it of her, as if he thought it’d be even more obvious. (It’s been said that his obliviousness is so intense it’s almost artful.) Virun, nice. Well, at least if we die we’ll have company. I’m Sacha -
His introduction ends suddenly, clipped with surprising speed; he has to bite his tongue to keep from continuing with Baumann, a habit forced by years of justifying his own bloodline. Virun, foreign as she sounds, won’t know of it unless he brings it up, and he won’t, if he can help it - there are much more interesting things to be talked about here.
SACHA;
