"Ah. Next year, then," he decided with a slow nod of his head. "But you will have to do the eyeshadow." He spoke with utter seriousness as he so often did, calmly sincere in the words he spoke, though Flora knew him well enough by now to spy the laughter hidden in his emerald eyes.
A litter of food containers caught his attention once the glass had been attended to and he shifted a short distance away to sweep them into the bag as they spoke. He looked over curiously at the snap of enlightenment, however, and after a moment of searching through his recent memory understanding dawned and he nodded. There was a rueful tilt to his lips as he considered the kind assumption, however incorrect. "It was once our greatest secret. That we are no better or worse than our landbound neighbors," he rumbled, amused. The thought of 'Kaiden' and 'sophisticated' in the same sentence was its own paradox that had him holding back a silent laugh. "Drunks and troublemakers included."
It was good to hear that the festivities hadn't been interrupted by some new Void Horror or encroachment, though Hadama paused in his cleaning to glance over at his co-ruler with a gleam in those green eyes. "Mmh. Far from home, was he?" he asked, his tone carefully bland but his eyes twinkling.
A litter of food containers caught his attention once the glass had been attended to and he shifted a short distance away to sweep them into the bag as they spoke. He looked over curiously at the snap of enlightenment, however, and after a moment of searching through his recent memory understanding dawned and he nodded. There was a rueful tilt to his lips as he considered the kind assumption, however incorrect. "It was once our greatest secret. That we are no better or worse than our landbound neighbors," he rumbled, amused. The thought of 'Kaiden' and 'sophisticated' in the same sentence was its own paradox that had him holding back a silent laugh. "Drunks and troublemakers included."
It was good to hear that the festivities hadn't been interrupted by some new Void Horror or encroachment, though Hadama paused in his cleaning to glance over at his co-ruler with a gleam in those green eyes. "Mmh. Far from home, was he?" he asked, his tone carefully bland but his eyes twinkling.
