[If Emery notices that frown he doesn't deign to comment on it. And he actually expounds on his backstory easily enough.]
I grew up in Stoyard Valley! Have you ever heard of Hill & Dale Printing? My dad's one of the Dales. I grew up with access to all the little chapbooks I could get my grubby mitts on. And I don't have any siblings, but I've got a fair amount of cousins that lived nearby, so I had them to play with as a kid. Though even when they weren't around, I had my friends to play with too.
[Shocker of shockers, the attractive, confident kid from a well-off trade family was pretty popular.]
Oh, and every auntie and granny in town absolutely doted on me. I'm astonished that I never got any permanent marks from having my cheeks pinched constantly.
[This is accompanied by a woebegone look cast in Zelgadis's direction and a forlorn touch to his own cheek.]
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I grew up in Stoyard Valley! Have you ever heard of Hill & Dale Printing? My dad's one of the Dales. I grew up with access to all the little chapbooks I could get my grubby mitts on. And I don't have any siblings, but I've got a fair amount of cousins that lived nearby, so I had them to play with as a kid. Though even when they weren't around, I had my friends to play with too.
[Shocker of shockers, the attractive, confident kid from a well-off trade family was pretty popular.]
Oh, and every auntie and granny in town absolutely doted on me. I'm astonished that I never got any permanent marks from having my cheeks pinched constantly.
[This is accompanied by a woebegone look cast in Zelgadis's direction and a forlorn touch to his own cheek.]