: I'm glad you like "surmise". Did you need to
: look it up? :/ The journal writer was not close to the
: big guys. Otherwise he would have spoken to them, not
: been spoken to. He's simply in close proximity to a
: few of them because he is one of few veterans left in
: a war that has clearly eliminated most of the fighting
: forces of the west. If Alric and the narrator were the
: only two men left alive after Balor was killed, one
: could *surmise* that Alric would have something to say
: to him. As for whether or not they'd shoot the breeze,
: I dunno. :)
Well, he was allowed to carry the Codex, and in the Tain he speaks directly to Murgen, who avoids his question of whether everytghing ever imprisoned in the Tain would be released when it was shattered.
