"Wouldn't wanna go living up to your name," he agreed with a little smile. "When I got here I gave myself a few days to settle, then found that and turned it into a lab, started reading everything they got in the library. Been teachin' kids again, too." He'd always loved doing so, but there'd been no one to teach since the circles fell.
"That doesn't sound half-bad." He ignored the crack about his name because he'd been ignoring those for his entire life. "There a lot of kids around here? I thought it was like a war camp."
"It is," Raylan agreed. "Most refugee kids are stayin' with their parents, going wherever they go. Mage kids ain't got nowhere, though. Nowhere but here," he said, gesturing around them. "So if you see a kid around, most likely they'd be in a circle if they still existed."
That little fuzz-out wasn't lost on Raylan. He took a second with that offer, trying to pin down what that had been about. He decided not to poke at it just yet (see? he's grown).
"I oughta get back to what I was doin'," Raylan said, avoiding labeling it as work. "But I'll come find ya when I come up for dinner."
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"I oughta get back to what I was doin'," Raylan said, avoiding labeling it as work. "But I'll come find ya when I come up for dinner."