"Well, you can't force trust. It's gotta come natural. Guess it must be a bit hard, everybody thrown together from different places and what have you." But it was still disheartening to hear.
Bert couldn't help but avert his eyes when Alessa used rather non-conventional means to get herself a drink. Nothing personal against her, he just wasn't over his jitters regarding magic. The last few weeks of his life had taken a toll on him, even if he wouldn't show it.
"Oh, bastard?" Bert asked, as though that sort of question was perfectly acceptable. Far as he was concerned, it was. The Deschain line came from one of Eld's bastards, after all.