Tal straightened a little when Cat mentioned the cold, looking as alert as a hound. When she confirmed his suspicions he gave her a lopsided grin, looking more at ease than he had when his companion had been making an adorable nuisance of herself. "Yeah? Us too!" The sounds of the party nearby seemed to fade away as he looked her over with fresh eyes, trying to figure out if he'd seen her before. "Boreal'n I used t'run the Tundra dogsled route, makin' deliveries t'the people an' tribes outside o' th'Citadel. Back before th'War," he clarified hurriedly. "When it was all ice an' Tundra." He hesitated, his eagerness at meeting a fellow ex-pat fading slightly at what he had to say next. "But, uh... I moved t'King's End a year ago, just before Starfall. My sisters'n family are all still in Snowcloak, though." He gave an awkward one-armed shrug, but his lips twitched a bit at the mention of Flora.
"Flora, huh? Wonder what she was doin' in Halo..." He trailed off, giving a shake of his shaggy head, though he clearly recognized who Cat was talking about. Maybe she'd been up to Queen stuff? Though the courier didn't seem terribly impressed with her title, taking Cat's casual reference to the Doubletake in stride. He'd known her before she was Queen, after all, and the addition of a crown and a title hadn't really changed much about her in his experience.
For her part, Boreal pressed up into the head pats, tilting her broad head to encourage scritching fingers at the base of her horns. Tal was less worried about her now that she wasn't trying to con some poor soul out of their food, but he blinked in surprise to hear that he and Boreal were amont Cat's first few connections. "Oh shit, really? I mean, uh... sorry," he apologized sheepishly. "I'm... probably not th'best for that sorta thing. So, uh... don't get th'wrong idea about people on my account!" He was definitely not equipped to be anyone's second or third human contact on Caido!
"Flora, huh? Wonder what she was doin' in Halo..." He trailed off, giving a shake of his shaggy head, though he clearly recognized who Cat was talking about. Maybe she'd been up to Queen stuff? Though the courier didn't seem terribly impressed with her title, taking Cat's casual reference to the Doubletake in stride. He'd known her before she was Queen, after all, and the addition of a crown and a title hadn't really changed much about her in his experience.
For her part, Boreal pressed up into the head pats, tilting her broad head to encourage scritching fingers at the base of her horns. Tal was less worried about her now that she wasn't trying to con some poor soul out of their food, but he blinked in surprise to hear that he and Boreal were amont Cat's first few connections. "Oh shit, really? I mean, uh... sorry," he apologized sheepishly. "I'm... probably not th'best for that sorta thing. So, uh... don't get th'wrong idea about people on my account!" He was definitely not equipped to be anyone's second or third human contact on Caido!
