Patience
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As Noble made his dramatic statement Patience continued to watch the stallion for any signs of aggression, a twitch, a glow to his horn, anything that would give her time to react if he had tried to attack. But all she saw was a disappointed demigod with a flair for dramatics and a dislike for the word betrayer. So when he suddenly opened up a pair of wings Patience merely tensed to react and as she watched him fly away with no obvious intent to come back she relaxed slightly and turned her attention back to the mare, the designated threat was gone now all that was left was to see what was up with the other one.
So when the Captain lowered his blade and tried to converse with the mare Patience shook her head and sheathed her blade, reaching back under her stomach and unlocking it before tilting her sheath back up into its usual position with the blade properly secured in it... Though she didn't close her wings or relax her defensive stance much, that mare had previously been quit quick to draw her crossbow and Patience wasn't about to let her guard down and let somepony get shot... Not that she cared about the others! She just didn't want to get shot is all!.....
The mare initially spoke up defensively as was expected but her sudden shock and sadness was slightly suspicious, she'd just confessed that the other pony was her brother... The alicorn demigod! So Patience wasn't sure how to deal with the other mare cause on one hoof she could have actually been sad and that sucked in all but in the merks opinion it was more of a family problem and it didn't change anything other than she and her brother needed to work it out themselves, but the expedition was overseas not here in Equestria where her brother was so not only was it none of their business but... It had no place on the expedition, just drama...... That said the more likely option was that she was faking and that the demigod could teleport so it was just a trap to catch them off guard, Patience was having none of that so she took little notice of the other mares tears and instead watched her surroundings more carefully.
Then the Captain stalled out, apparently not sure how to deal with the emotional mare... Not that Patience could blame him, if she where in his position she wouldn't have been any better at dealing with it. That said she wasn't real pleased to have the rookie deal with her as opposed to the Captain, when she noticed the guard over where the rook used to be she understood but it was still a bit irritating. So when Scribe asked to start things over again without swords Patience rolled her eyes, folded her wings with a faint click, and brought her now folded wings to her side before sitting down and watching the pair. She had figured that she'd use this opportunity to see if Scribe was as green as he looked and had thus stayed quiet. *'There's a difference between tactless and blunt and to the point you know...'*
So Gwyn stopped crying and spoke to Scribe, explaining little of what had happened and generally sounding pitiful... Whatever it was either fake, though by this point it probably wasn't seeing as the theoretical trap should have been sprung the moment the Captain turned around and let his guard down, or not her problem so lets see how Scribe deals with it... To which he just paused, looked around, grinned nervously, looked to the Captain for some reason, looked back to Gwyn, and stated that because he doesn't know where his sister was that they should stick together..... What?... Umm ok so hes obviously reallllly naive at least and probably pretty green indeed. Then he said that the Captain would come around and that he'd be making uggh... 'gooey-eyes' at the pegasus mare over there. So he had a marefriend, good for him now what does that have to do with him coming around in any way?... Maybe his marefriend was soft? Eh made sense, going with that.
So by the time Gwyn was thanking for his naiv 'kindness' Patience was shaking her head and sighing. *'This is going to be a looooong trip... Poor rook, i don't know how green the poor stallion'll be by the end of this.'* And after a few moments she instead opted to ask something more on topic to her, choosing a more neutral tone as she didn't really know what to think of 'Rook' as she had decided to call the younger stallion. "Alllright now that that's done with... What exactly are we doing here, all the flier said was that you and the Captain need some assistance and you had an idea of how to end this mess. Soooo i'm here and i'd like to help, tell me what you two have planned and i'll try to help you guys out... No charge considering the state of things around here but i do need to have an idea of whats going on in order to offer you guys any help....."