I do plenty of chatting! [Just ask any of the shopkeepers! Or some of the locals he's given a hand, or people he meets in passing at cafés. He's cheery and mostly polite, fitting right in.
...Which was always the point. It's easier to slide in and out of places if you're a friendly, pleasant guy. Maybe a bit weird, but not some mysterious, potentially dangerous loner. It's not that he's naturally chatty. He's perfectly willing to talk if the situation calls for it, but he was always blunt, even when those situations were frequent. He'd worked out how to chat, because people were less likely to match 'hired assassin' with 'nice oddball priest.']
Just...not with friends.
[His steps had slowed; he picks up the pace now so the next couple won't run into them.]
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...Which was always the point. It's easier to slide in and out of places if you're a friendly, pleasant guy. Maybe a bit weird, but not some mysterious, potentially dangerous loner. It's not that he's naturally chatty. He's perfectly willing to talk if the situation calls for it, but he was always blunt, even when those situations were frequent. He'd worked out how to chat, because people were less likely to match 'hired assassin' with 'nice oddball priest.']
Just...not with friends.
[His steps had slowed; he picks up the pace now so the next couple won't run into them.]