Reynir can't help but wonder whether Jacob is telling the exact truth - but in which direction? It's possible he is someone perfectly law-abiding trying to play up his edginess and danger as a self-image thing. Reynir had known a boy like that in the village he was from: always pretending to be much more disreputable than he really was. Or, it's possible, Jacob really is an outlaw of some kind (maybe a vigilante? Cho had explained what those were...) and is downplaying it.
Still, since he has no way of knowing for sure, Reynir just... tucks that question away for now. People always showed you who they were, in the end. The truth came out sooner or later. Reynir knows that.
Right now, the thing that strikes him most about Jacob is that he takes the news about an apocalypse, even if it was one on another Earth and in the past, very calmly. Much moreso than most Reynir has told since he came here. Usually they are so distressed at the idea of all that death... the end of the world as they knew it, or closer to it. But Jacob just treats it like a part of a life cycle. A natural process, almost.
"Yeah... hopefully. Gods willing."
He lets that hang a moment before asking.
"What do you mean by that though? Getting it wrong?"
Is he implying - the way plenty of people do in Reynir's world - that the Illness was some kind of judgment, divinely handed down, for a world that had abandoned its gods? Or is he saying, as still others do, that it was all that technology and the way people had treated the planet that had caused the Illness? Or has he perhaps heard of another world that had gone through an upheaval as intense as Reynir's...?
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Still, since he has no way of knowing for sure, Reynir just... tucks that question away for now. People always showed you who they were, in the end. The truth came out sooner or later. Reynir knows that.
Right now, the thing that strikes him most about Jacob is that he takes the news about an apocalypse, even if it was one on another Earth and in the past, very calmly. Much moreso than most Reynir has told since he came here. Usually they are so distressed at the idea of all that death... the end of the world as they knew it, or closer to it. But Jacob just treats it like a part of a life cycle. A natural process, almost.
"Yeah... hopefully. Gods willing."
He lets that hang a moment before asking.
"What do you mean by that though? Getting it wrong?"
Is he implying - the way plenty of people do in Reynir's world - that the Illness was some kind of judgment, divinely handed down, for a world that had abandoned its gods? Or is he saying, as still others do, that it was all that technology and the way people had treated the planet that had caused the Illness? Or has he perhaps heard of another world that had gone through an upheaval as intense as Reynir's...?