Growing Pains|Sensatia

[Kender Bard]

Timble was running his thumb back and forth over the hilt of his knife as he gazed around the city. He was sitting on the window sill, leg dangling out the window with his back against the frame. Off in the distance, one could hear Divria singing to herself. Timble frowned to himself a little, lost in his ponderings.

[Devon]

Xavier pushes himself away from his desk and gets up to leave his office. He had been stuck in there for already three hours of his day and he felt he did deserve a little break. Walking through the halls of his home he poked his head in the twin's room and saw Timble sitting there on the sill. Leaning quietly against the door, Xavier watches his son and wondered what it was that had Timble so lost in though.

Knocking on the door softly as to cautiously alert Timble that he was there Xavier stands by the door and calls out to him. "Timble, mind if I come in?"

[Kender Bard]

Timble glanced back at Xavier and blinked, surprised that Xavier would care to be there. Though he'd come to grudgingly accept the man as family, a father figure, finally, he still didn't feel particularly close to him.

Still. "Yeah, sure," Timble said, gesturing to the bed and a couple chairs. "Take a seat. What do you need?"

[Devon]

Xavier smiles to Timble and goes to take a seat in the chair. "Oh well I don't really need anything, I was just taking a break from my work and decided to check in on you. I think I should be the one asking you what you need though. So is there anything at all that you need?"

[Kender Bard]

"I dunno," Timble mumbled with more anguish than the question warranted. "What do I want? I guess that's the question." He turned and looked at Xavier, frowning. "I don't know what I want to do with my life. I never thought I'd have a choice, you know? But here I am and time's running out. A lot of guys my age have apprenticeships or going to the Mind college."

[Devon]

Xavier nods and rests on his knees while he considers Timble's question and the advice he'd give to him. He had to resist smirking in front of Timble, it wasn't that he thought Timble's question was funny, but he never imagined himself giving his son advice the way Bryant used to do for him when he was younger.

"Well is there something you've ever imagined yourself doing when you got older? You're a bright young man Timble. If you wanted you could go into the Mind college, the world really is open to you."

[Kender Bard]

Timble shook his head. "Why go to college? Most of what they teach there is above me. I'm good at catching on to things, yeah, but that's a bit much. Learn to walk before you run, all that." He took a deep breath and thought deeply. "I don't know, I guess if I had a choice, I thought I'd guard Divria forever. But that's not really a life."

[Devon]

Xavier nods along to what Timble said. The Mind college wasn't for everyone and Timble always seemed to be the kind of guy to go out and do his own thing in life. "You're right that isn't a life. You don't have to live your life to protect Divria, you can do what you want and still be close to her. Think hard on what you're good at, what you like and what you know you wouldn't want to do. Then maybe you can find out what you want to do."

[Kender Bard]

Timble sighed as he balanced his knife carefully on a fingertip for a few unsteady moments before flipping it and catching it. "I've got fast hands. And I like the rush of battle in my blood. Hmm, I don't want to do anything that will keep me in one spot for too long. Any suggestions now?"

[Devon]

"Maybe you'd like the military or you could go in business for yourself like a hired fighter or something. It'd be dangerous work, but you'd obviously get to travel around a lot." Xavier offered that as his suggestion to Timble. He would rather he didn't do anything dangerous, but it was Timble's choice.

[Kender Bard]

"Not a bad idea," Timble conceded. "Definately worth thinking about. I think I'll talk to Divria about it." So she can come along. "Gonna miss us when we're gone?"

[Devon]

"Of course I will. I'd rather you both stay near me, but that is selfish you have your own lives to lead." Xavier pauses and smiles to Timble, "You always have a home to come back though."

[Kender Bard]

Timble took it as a challenge and tried to look down his nose at Xavier; which wasn't really possible since Xavier still stood taller than the young man. "Oh? Why's that? What happens if we don't?"

[Devon]

Xavier stares back at Timble and as calm as can be he answers him. "If you don't come back, then you don't come back. You'll just make Luna and I very sad. All I'm saying is that you shouldn't feel ashamed to come around for a visit when you leave."

[Kender Bard]

Timble swallowed and squirmed under that gaze. "I.. I'll come back, geez, there's no reason to.. to... uhh..." He trailed off lamely. It wasn't like Xavier was throwing a fit. He was just making Timble feel guilty. "I don't think I'll ever figure out why you care."