"If you want a word with the Captain, you know where my chambers are." The creature approaching Rondo is very large. She sticks out with her fluffy blue feathers and sharp red eyes, not even getting into her fancy sailor's clothes. Captain skekSa is about to hail who she thinks is one of her off-duty Sifa until she has a better look at the stranger and realizes her mistake.
Oops. It's not the first time she's encountered a creature that could be mistaken for a gelfling, but she's seasoned enough here that the mistake is embarrassing. She quickly tries to cover for her mistake.
"Apologies, lad, I mistook you for a gelfling for a moment, though you are a wee bit on the big side for one." Up close, this being is clearly not a Gelfling. "Now, as for your question - I make sure that information about this place stays between myself, the Sifan maudra, and a select crew. It wouldn't do for certain people to learn about the Nexus at all. We make sure the wares we smuggle from other worlds stay under a tight lock, and we limit what we bring back with us to things that we can explain if we have to."
By "certain people", she means Emperor skekSo and the other Court Skeksis, even though she thinks they wouldn't receive a friendly greeting if they came. While on average Nexus denizens are a naive lot, by her assessment, the other Thra denizens and the angels know about their true nature.
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Oops. It's not the first time she's encountered a creature that could be mistaken for a gelfling, but she's seasoned enough here that the mistake is embarrassing. She quickly tries to cover for her mistake.
"Apologies, lad, I mistook you for a gelfling for a moment, though you are a wee bit on the big side for one." Up close, this being is clearly not a Gelfling. "Now, as for your question - I make sure that information about this place stays between myself, the Sifan maudra, and a select crew. It wouldn't do for certain people to learn about the Nexus at all. We make sure the wares we smuggle from other worlds stay under a tight lock, and we limit what we bring back with us to things that we can explain if we have to."
By "certain people", she means Emperor skekSo and the other Court Skeksis, even though she thinks they wouldn't receive a friendly greeting if they came. While on average Nexus denizens are a naive lot, by her assessment, the other Thra denizens and the angels know about their true nature.