Vervain Gardener is many things: Sheltered, trusting, and painfully earnest.
But he's not stupid by any stretch of the imagination.
True to form, he's not in any way alarmed by Dain's question (if he's even got any alarms to go off), but it does make him pause, because--
Because he doesn't know exactly how he's doing what he's doing, and nothing Gram taught him about logic or introspection or reasoning seems to apply to figuring out the mystery. He owes a shepherd--especially a kindly one!--an honest answer, though; so he bites his lower lip and considers carefully before saying, "I don't know, precisely. I s'pose I'm hearing the difference between them when I pick them up."
Which feels plausible, at least, right?
Great. Now it's going to be bothering him the rest of the day (especially because it suggests things he's not dumb enough to ignore).
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But he's not stupid by any stretch of the imagination.
True to form, he's not in any way alarmed by Dain's question (if he's even got any alarms to go off), but it does make him pause, because--
Because he doesn't know exactly how he's doing what he's doing, and nothing Gram taught him about logic or introspection or reasoning seems to apply to figuring out the mystery. He owes a shepherd--especially a kindly one!--an honest answer, though; so he bites his lower lip and considers carefully before saying, "I don't know, precisely. I s'pose I'm hearing the difference between them when I pick them up."
Which feels plausible, at least, right?
Great. Now it's going to be bothering him the rest of the day (especially because it suggests things he's not dumb enough to ignore).