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[ostro_goth]

Teja is in the bar, playing his harp, and waiting whether some that he would speak with, show themselves.

Two in particular he hopes to see; and both are women.-

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[sonofwhitecity]

Boromir is definitely not a woman, and probably not someone who Teja was expecting to see, but nonetheless there he is, bowing his head in greeting when he recognizes the Ostrogoth.

"Greetings, Teja son of Tagila. It has been some time."

[ostro_goth]

"That is why I agreed to be king," Teja says, "for it was better for my people. No kingdom left, at that point. The sacrifice asked of you was different from mine."

[sonofwhitecity]

"No sacrifice was asked from me. At least none of that kind. I went in search of wisdom and found myself involved in a quest to end the war and destroy our Enemy. Then my weakness almost caused the quest to fail, but before I could atone for that deed, death came to me." He shakes his head. "There was no sacrifice there, not any further than doing what my duty demanded."

[ostro_goth]

"Did you not sacrifice your life then, for the sake of the quest?" Teja says. "You do not strike me as a man that would die, randomly, in a fall of rocks."

[sonofwhitecity]

"I died defending my companions, just as any of them would have given their lives for me. Just as any good soldier would die for his comrades. If I had acted differently, it would not have been me. I do not see it as a sacrifice."

[ostro_goth]

"You did as any good man does, dying for his friends and his duty," Teja says. "But a sacrifice, it still is, and atonement, if what you did helped their cause?"

[sonofwhitecity]

"It may have been so in our own time and place, Teja son of Tagila. But being here for some time you must be aware that not all good men from all worlds see death as we did." He pauses, smiling faintly. "Which brings me to one thing I have been meaning to say to you."

[ostro_goth]

"Say it to me, then," Teja says, looking at him, head tilted.

[sonofwhitecity]

Boromir nods, his face serious. "It is a good thing having found someone with whom I can speak like I would to my own kinsmen." There is a pause, a slight hesitation. Boromir is not one to be this familiar with people whom he thinks of as equals. "In a way, it makes the absence of my brother Faramir easier to bear."

[ostro_goth]

"It is good to have one around that thinks and feels like my people did, also," Teja says. "Among all those men and women from the future, I am sometimes quite at sea."

[sonofwhitecity]

"Then we can be at sea together, and though lost at least be in each other's company." There is a hint of humour in his tone, the slightly dark humour of a people besieged by war. He reaches out, offering his hand to Teja.

[ostro_goth]

Teja clasps it, as he would have done with a man of his time, instead of shaking it, as those from the future are wont to do.

"At sea together," he agrees. "And if there are strange things that assail you, which you know not yet but I have encountered, you will have my help with them."