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"... Hrm..." He seemed to be thinking about something, as if perhaps he didn't know what his name was. "Kyne is what you'll call me," the man said at last. "By the way, I'm not impressed by you using politeness as a way to avoid answering my question. That, itself, is very rude."

"Then let me politely say that your remarks come across as very entitled," Gabriela tells him with a sweet smile. "I owe you nothing, and yet gave you my name and a smile regardless. Least of all am I obligated to answer your question."

"Of course that's true," Kyne says. "Perhaps it was my idle curiosity which caused us to get off on the wrong foot."

Gabriela relaxes, although Kyne doesn't really seem like he had changed his attitude at all. He still seemed like a very impertinent and arrogant guy. Rather, Gabriela started to feel like it wasn't worth the trouble of arguing with him. "If you'll believe it, I came here on a mission."

Kyne looks around. "I don't see any mission objectives here." He blinks. "Are you sure?"

"Yes. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must enter the shrine," Gabriela tells him. She didn't want to keep the Gods waiting any longer. As she departs the scene she notes that Kyne follows her. Well, whatever, that was probably fine.

Gabriela enters the shrine of storms, but finds that the place is just as empty as the outside. Aside from herself and Kyne, no one is here. She looks over her shoulder at Kyne, examining him seriously. Could it be that the Gods won't appear if this guy is here...?

"Could you wait outside?" Gabriela asks him.

Kyne crosses his arms and sighs. He leaves the shrine.

Nothing happens.

Gabriela starts to feel a sense of disappointment. Maybe she had expected too much out of this quest. She wanted to believe in what Corella told her, and wanted to live up to Corella's faith... the faith that had been put in her to carry out this mission. However, as things stood, it seemed she wasn't going to make contact so easily.

The gods, for whatever reason, had chosen not to show themselves.

"Are you looking for something?" Kyne asks, as Gabriela steps back outside. "Or someone?"

"Yes," Gabriela admits. It's almost embarrassing to say it, but she thinks very little of this guy. As a result she feels like she can tell him anything without worrying what he might think in return. "I was supposed to be on a divine mission here, to make contact with the Gods."

"Wow..." Kyne just stares at her. "Fascinating."

Gabriela frowns but, studying his expression, she can't make heads or tails of what he's trying to imply with that remark. His face seems so blank, so odd, and so impossible to read. She still thinks he's a very arrogant guy but can't assign much motive to him beyond that.

Plus, she was pretty sure that he was shorter than she was!

Gabriela tilts her head back, thinking deeply, her brows furrow for a few moments.

"You know," Kyne says, interrupting her thoughts, "If you're interested in the Gods perhaps you might want to know something. I heard a story of my own, recently, and I was on my way to investigate it."

Gabriela gives him a strange look. That seemed like quite a coincidence. It almost sounded too insane to be true. Then, at the same time, she began to wonder... if this was all part of the divine plan in the end. It was hard to know for sure. Maybe she wasn't supposed to meet the Gods here, but she was supposed to meet Kyne. And Kyne would help her find the Gods.
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