Idolatry - Chapter Seven
“Here we are!” Evinal declared, and his voice was proud he flung open the door.
Honestly, Time hadn’t been sure what to expect when he followed the baron out to his garden. He had led them to what looked like a small gardener’s hut, but apparently this was where the man’s sculptor in residence did his work.
And honestly? As far as odd hobbies of the elite went, supporting a local artisan in his work wasn’t the weirdest out there. Even if Time did have reservations over quite how many statues there were of his brother around the city, this garden at least seemed mercifully free of them.
Evinal smiled and gestured to Time to go on in. Time hesitated, something about that gesture feeling a little… off. Wasn’t Evinal supposed to walk through the door first? As a sign of his higher status? Time had never pretended to have a title and he was fairly certain that his accent, a mishmash of Kokiri, Terminan, and the soft burr of the villages near Lon Lon ranch, marked him out as being distinctly below the baron on the social ladder.
…maybe Evinal wasn’t as bad as he’d thought. Maybe underneath the pompous exterior, he really was just a genial, slightly dramatic old man.
Either way, he had information on Link. On Time’s big brother. Sure, he wasn’t quite sure why they were going to a mason’s workshop, but the minutiae of courtly manners didn’t exactly seem important right now. Time stepped through the door, nodding politely to the baron as he went.
He didn’t like how Evinal’s smile stretched as he passed.