Irian doesn't see any reason to dissemble about that answer. It wasn't an accident; she wishes she could say that it was. One of her own people intentionally caused the explosion of the Hobus star. To say Taris is a traitor is putting it more lightly than she deserves.
She watches Sinthia, carefully, as the girl follows her. Irian doesn't think she's been asked so many questions in a single conversation in quite some time, but they're not personal or private, and she's not uncomfortable with answering them. It is unusual to her to have a human so interested in her world, but that is hardly a bad thing.
"This is the Valley of the Firefalls," she says, and signs with a jerk of her chin — the Rihannsu equivalent of pointing — in the direction of the falls themselves. From here, they're visible only as a bright orange-yellow glow and a great billowing of smoke produced by the burning hydrocarbons. "Our capital city is on the far side, near the river."
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Irian doesn't see any reason to dissemble about that answer. It wasn't an accident; she wishes she could say that it was. One of her own people intentionally caused the explosion of the Hobus star. To say Taris is a traitor is putting it more lightly than she deserves.
She watches Sinthia, carefully, as the girl follows her. Irian doesn't think she's been asked so many questions in a single conversation in quite some time, but they're not personal or private, and she's not uncomfortable with answering them. It is unusual to her to have a human so interested in her world, but that is hardly a bad thing.
"This is the Valley of the Firefalls," she says, and signs with a jerk of her chin — the Rihannsu equivalent of pointing — in the direction of the falls themselves. From here, they're visible only as a bright orange-yellow glow and a great billowing of smoke produced by the burning hydrocarbons. "Our capital city is on the far side, near the river."