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Zell's head was on a slow swivel as he took in the tranquil vista he walked through.  It was certainly a new experience for the man who who'd lived in big cities his whole life.  The song of birds, the random calls of animals - nature didn't shut up!  But it wasn't bad.  Just different.  Occasionally he waved away an insect that flew in his face.

He started to get bored with walking in silence.

"Hey, big guy," he said to Joji next to him.  He offered his hand to shake.  "Nice to have a fellow swordsman around.  All these magic-nerds, amarite."

He was only messing around, but still clearly jealous that he didn't have any magical powers like the others.  Joji didn't look like the type who liked to joke around, but Zell tried anyway.  In fact, speaking of Joji; Zell knew something about the man just by looking at him, and that was that the big guy was no stranger to 'the other side' of civilian life.  The Underworld.  Zell had rubbed shoulders with some shady people in order to buy the amount of product required to make a decent living as a drug dealer.  In the criminal world, there were a lot of guys like Zell, who weren't tough or who weren't in too deep.  But then there were the 'real cats' who lived it and thrived in it.  Those particular people - you could just tell who they were - it was in their eyes.

Joji had those eyes.

"Guys like us gotta stick together.  You know, guys who aren't afraid to get their hands dirty," he continued.  Then his voice got a little quieter.  "In this life or the last."  Zell held the man's gaze for a second.  "Back in England, you rub shoulders with certain individuals, kinda hard to keep your hands [i]clean[/i], ya know."

He left it at that.  In the streets, a loose tongue was a quick way to get yourself sent to jail or the hospital.  That no longer mattered to Zell, seeing as he was now [i]Skelly Slaying Swordsman: Hero fromm the Sky[/i].  But still.  It would be disrepectful to just start blabbing to Joji when he didn't even know the guy.  And whatever the specifics of Joji's background were, he was very clearly a man of respect.

"You really think we'll get some answers in Valhiem?  Something tells me it's not gonna be that easy."