She shakes her head at his words with a smile but moves on as well, coming back over to the table with a knife and a cutting board to start and prepare dinner, shoving potatoes at him so he can start peeling them.] Of course. You'll have to meet Matsue as well, should you think of joining us. [A thoughtful pause.] For a daughter of man, she seems full of potential. [The tone falls slightly at the last words - no matter the friendship between Laketown and the Lonely Mountain, no matter the many contacts with humans that she's seen over the years, none of that ever broke the simple assumption that dwarves simply are the best race. That in at least the crafts that assumption is objectively justified doesn't really help with easing her out of that.]
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She shakes her head at his words with a smile but moves on as well, coming back over to the table with a knife and a cutting board to start and prepare dinner, shoving potatoes at him so he can start peeling them.] Of course. You'll have to meet Matsue as well, should you think of joining us. [A thoughtful pause.] For a daughter of man, she seems full of potential. [The tone falls slightly at the last words - no matter the friendship between Laketown and the Lonely Mountain, no matter the many contacts with humans that she's seen over the years, none of that ever broke the simple assumption that dwarves simply are the best race. That in at least the crafts that assumption is objectively justified doesn't really help with easing her out of that.]