[color=#1A1A3B][b][u][h1][sub][sub][sub]Farren[/sub][/sub][/sub][/h1][/u][/b][/color]		     barely even seemed to notice the significance of Ophelia speaking with Gerlinde, in fact…it was almost as if he didn’t notice them speaking at all. Instead, he found himself embraced in a gentle sort of wonder at the garden around them, and their host as well. His gaze would drift between flowers, the only sign that some part of him might have been aware of the danger inherent to having one’s mind co-opted the fact that three of his fingertips kept lightly drifting over the faintly weathered grip of the True Blade of Mercy where it remained sheathed at his hip. As Ophelia focused on Harold and she began to build to her question, he found his attention being drawn between her and Harold. The [color=gray]nice old man[/color] seemed to listen so graciously despite the prying nature of her words. Farren almost found her inquiry rude, even though he too was exceptionally curious regarding the nature of his own metamorphosis.

Almost guiltily, Farren spoke, his words coming a beat after Ophelia’s, though adding far less to the conversation than hers had.

[color=#1A1A3B][b]“Admittedly, I’d wondered that myself…”[/b][/color] he said, beginning to trail off before a small part of his mind pushed him [i]just[/i] far enough to say something else, to actually ask something of Vicar Harold. [color=#1A1A3B][b]“Honestly…I don’t think I know much of Paleblood itself, let alone this…false sort. Perhaps you could enlighten us?”[/b][/color] Where normally, the final phrase–his actual question–would likely have come off as if he felt he deserved the answer, maybe have even been delivered in a somewhat abrasive manner, in that moment it came off more as an earnest plea. In fact, Farren almost felt…embarrassed to ask so much of the man who ostensibly had served a vital role in healing him of whatever horrid affliction he must have been ensnared by prior to the blood ministration.

After all, how could a nice man like Harold have anything but noble intentions for the people of Yharnam?