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Senora
Senora listened to Larry’s explanation. This is the second time he had made reference to a less than favorable past version of himself. She also didn’t know who the Windbringer was, this is the first she had heard of him. However, before she could ask, Joseph began to speak to Larry and she turned her attention towards him. There was so much she didn’t know and if she was going to enter into a potentially dangerous situation with them, she needed to learn all that she could. She looked towards the tower as the mage began to speak about it and the type of person that must have built it. His dialect was rough around the edges although the content of his words sounded rather educated.
As he continued with his thoughts and explanation, she began feeling an intensity grow within her. At first she paid little if any attention to this as she was very determined to learn all she could about the situation from these men. However, the feelings quickly grew to a level that she couldn’t easily ignore. Intensity itself is such a vague description of what she was feeling. This was a very focused intensity that was gradually getting more powerful and yet felt…calm and controlled. The feeling surged within her in waves as they always did when she was on the receiving end of someone else’s emotions. She sharply turned from the tower and was immediately drawn to Joseph as wave after wave washed through her, each growing a little more intense than the last.
Drifting a few steps closer to him, she no longer retained anything that he was saying, but noticed that he spoke without any of the intensity or underlying passion that he was feeling. Odd, to feel passionate at a time like this, however, she was almost certain his feelings weren’t connected to the thought of helping the group per say. It felt more like a self-gratified passion. More like how a writer must feel the moment they realize what they need to do in order to add that twist ending to a novel they’ve been writing, or how an artist must feel when they wake up in the middle of the night with the breakthrough idea of how to finish their masterpiece. The passion that comes when you’ve found the missing piece to finish a puzzle. She had felt similar things from mages before, however, it was interesting to her how well Joseph masked this growing focused power while carrying on a subtle conversation.
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