Book 2: Chapter 86: Bloodlines and Tranquility

Yin Hu looked away from the old man they had been sitting around for the past hour. A second old man that was equally as loquacious as the one that had regaled them about Lou Feng and IronArch City. Something about these geezers made them speak endlessly for hours to anyone willing to listen. If anything they seemed to brighten with massive smiles with so many people surrounding them.

Then again, it was only their party that had been doing so. Otherwise, all of the old men were mostly alone.

Lonely. Isolated even though they were in the midst of entire crowds, large families, and ignorance they could remedy with nothing but stories and learned moments.

...