It was ... an alluring place, especially back then.
[Not so much now, in Anton's opinion, though he prefers not to talk politics when it comes to specific nations. Every country has their flaws. He still does remember the frontier, though, riding through that endless country--there had been something romantic about it even then.
[Now, though ... well. In some ways Anton preferred the pilgrimage to the modernity.]
action;
[Not so much now, in Anton's opinion, though he prefers not to talk politics when it comes to specific nations. Every country has their flaws. He still does remember the frontier, though, riding through that endless country--there had been something romantic about it even then.
[Now, though ... well. In some ways Anton preferred the pilgrimage to the modernity.]
How goes the war?
[Even though he knows how it ends. Even though he was there for a good part of it. It's more a nudge, to see what sort of position Shay held.]