"Full. Too many people in too small a space. There was some -- because there were four of us, and we were close in age, people in the village had a tendency to treat us like a unit. Like we weren't... different. Just those Rutherfords, farming outside town. And I was the stuffy one, obviously. Spending so much time around the Chantry didn't help. I wanted -- more responsibility, always. Made me an outlier among the rest of the children in the village."
He tapped Alistair's chest. "But I never snitched. And once I beat up a boy who made fun of Mia. If anyone had anything to say after that, they kept it to themselves."
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"Loud, for the most part."
(Finally, he's relaxed.)
"Full. Too many people in too small a space. There was some -- because there were four of us, and we were close in age, people in the village had a tendency to treat us like a unit. Like we weren't... different. Just those Rutherfords, farming outside town. And I was the stuffy one, obviously. Spending so much time around the Chantry didn't help. I wanted -- more responsibility, always. Made me an outlier among the rest of the children in the village."
He tapped Alistair's chest. "But I never snitched. And once I beat up a boy who made fun of Mia. If anyone had anything to say after that, they kept it to themselves."