Enki hummed and leaned forward, grabbing his ankles instead for a slightly new position.
"I saw that..." Then he rolled his eyes, but a small, lop-sided smile slipped out. "A few of the kids here had a meeting a bit ago, talked about making sure any kid who couldn't fight could get five by having the other kids go to the current child Player. Good enough, I suppose, though I'm hardly a child."
No matter what he looked like. His inital wonder of if you had to grow old to grow up? He didn't consider that to be a truth. Sure, he probably was more childish than anyone who'd lived for 513 years thereabouts would ever be, but he was hardly a child in the full meaning of the word.
"I'll... just hope it'll take a while before I'm chosen I suppose," Enki said with a grimace. It was hard to simply accept this thing. The kidnapping was one thing; he'd been kidnapped before, and wasn't worse treated this time than the last, but the fighting... the forced fighting...
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"I saw that..." Then he rolled his eyes, but a small, lop-sided smile slipped out. "A few of the kids here had a meeting a bit ago, talked about making sure any kid who couldn't fight could get five by having the other kids go to the current child Player. Good enough, I suppose, though I'm hardly a child."
No matter what he looked like. His inital wonder of if you had to grow old to grow up? He didn't consider that to be a truth. Sure, he probably was more childish than anyone who'd lived for 513 years thereabouts would ever be, but he was hardly a child in the full meaning of the word.
"I'll... just hope it'll take a while before I'm chosen I suppose," Enki said with a grimace. It was hard to simply accept this thing. The kidnapping was one thing; he'd been kidnapped before, and wasn't worse treated this time than the last, but the fighting... the forced fighting...