In the absence of Pip to play with Boreal deigned to accept nose scritches from Koa, bumping her head up against his hip gently with a happy grumble. Her human breathed a quiet sigh of relief that the two dragons weren't about to be unleashed on the floating market like a second scaly cataclysm whose mischief was exponentially increased by being together. "Well, we can let 'em play later once we're away from th'Exchange." He gave the Dragoon a lopsided grin of shared exasperated affection for their companions, who always seemed more adept at finding trouble than avoiding it.
"An' it sure is! More'n most, for some reason. I'm lucky t'be in my own bed one day a week right now." Tal might have tried to press his handsome dragon-pal on his own activities, but probably to Koa's relief an equally handsome man appeared from a nearby shop-boat and the courier's pale eyes brightened in recognition.
"Thorn! Doin' some shoppin' t'day, too?" Well, duh, the exchanging of new jewelry pretty much answered the question before he'd finished asking, but the courtesan's obvious once-over of the Dragoon had Tal clearing his throat with a sudden bout of self-conscious awareness that he was suddenly the odd man out between the two beauties. "Nah, you're not interruptin'. S'good t'see you again," he added as gallantly as he could manage under the circumstances. Circumstances which involved a faint heat rising up the back of his neck as he looked between Koa and Thorn and then desperately sought solace from the dazzling pair by looking down at his feet. "Uh. Thorn, this's Koa. Koa, Thorn."
"An' it sure is! More'n most, for some reason. I'm lucky t'be in my own bed one day a week right now." Tal might have tried to press his handsome dragon-pal on his own activities, but probably to Koa's relief an equally handsome man appeared from a nearby shop-boat and the courier's pale eyes brightened in recognition.
"Thorn! Doin' some shoppin' t'day, too?" Well, duh, the exchanging of new jewelry pretty much answered the question before he'd finished asking, but the courtesan's obvious once-over of the Dragoon had Tal clearing his throat with a sudden bout of self-conscious awareness that he was suddenly the odd man out between the two beauties. "Nah, you're not interruptin'. S'good t'see you again," he added as gallantly as he could manage under the circumstances. Circumstances which involved a faint heat rising up the back of his neck as he looked between Koa and Thorn and then desperately sought solace from the dazzling pair by looking down at his feet. "Uh. Thorn, this's Koa. Koa, Thorn."
