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Beowulf who has been following behind the girl stopped a moment as she mentioned that her situation was complicated. This made him frown a little, the next mention of finding a hollowed tree where she had been abandoned made him frown even harder. Someone had left her out here alone? As a baby? With the creatures here that could have very easily made her a meal?

"Well that was careless of them to leave you out here without the protections of an adult." was Beowulf's first comment, he saw this as more of a 'shame on the parent' thing then anything else. "But I suppose they were ashamed of something..."

Picking up his pace a little as he had fallen behind Inej as she had continued walking while he had stopped. Brows furrowing as he crossed on arm over his chest, the other resting under his chin while he looked to be in thought. Like serious thought, so focused on something that he literally walked right into a tree and stumbled back with an, "Ack! Where dis this tree come from!" Soon rubbing his forehead where it had smacked into the rough bark first.

Shaking his head, short hair rustling as he did. The comment of forgetting his glasses made him look at Inej and snort a laugh. "No, no I didn't forget my glasses." He picked himself up off the ground and dusted off the leaves and whatever else clung to his clothing. "But I was thinking."

Stepping around the tree he looked at Inej more closely, though not in personal bubble close. Perhaps he would need glasses after all? He always thought he was great at seeing things, but maybe he wasn't?

"Half, full, shouldn't have really mattered. Your birth parents should have cared for you like any other." he said though shrugged a little. "I can't really see the difference in the concept. But then again, I'm about your age and haven't really had the thoughts of what my kids might look like." Really he hadn't, he had more to do with his life before then.

"If you were wondering what I was thinking about before that tree just leaped into my path. I wondered if someone with scrying abilities might be able to help you." He went back into that thinking pose he had been in before the tree, this time he wasn't trying to walk as well.

Pinching the bridge of his nose a little at the kids comment, yeah he shouldn't be worrying about that. It hadn't been a thought to him until this moment. Mentally shaking the thought from his head he looked back towards Inej. "Some are just too near sighted that even glasses won't help them see past the differences." he commented on the fact that some people are that way, thinking pure bloodlines are the only way to keep the world.

"I think I know someone who might be able to point us in the right direction." he had thought of his teacher in the arts of healing. He wondered if the old Yaeli would have an idea or the ability to do such things. "She is teaching me healing and herb lore, but she might know something about it."

He paused again to think, he didn't even know how he would even begin to ask! But for the time being he shoved it to the back of his mind. Something to ponder on if they didn't find the hollowed out tree. Though he did make the offer. "We can continue to hunt for the tree, or go see my teacher. This is up to you since it is what you are hunting for."

Also to note, in his reality, Beowulf had forgotten that he had been tasked with babysitting the girl. Things had turned away from that to actually wanting to help her find her origins. Even with the silent nagging at the back of his mind, one that he purposely ignored, this was more important then anything else.