Mateo
"Mm, there is nothing like it," Mateo agrees of the view, turning to lean against a stack of crates and gaze out across the Skyport and the Falling beyond. At Longheat there's not a cloud in sight up here, and the sky and ocean melt together in a watercolour he could watch for hours. "For me though, it is the Silk Houses - and not for the reason you are thinking." He flashes a grin over his shoulder to Kai around another bite of frozen banana.
"That place raised me, it felt like. It is where I had all of my firsts. And there is no other place like it in Caido - nowhere else you could get a tattoo, a cocktail and then go window shopping all at 2am." His laughter is warm and easy, drawn from memories and occasions in those cobbled alleyways. "It had its downsides and shadier places, do not get me wrong. But that is what made it what it was."
Blinking away the nostalgia before it drags him under, Mateo angles himself to look back at Kai properly. "I am glad. Better to be out of here sooner rather than later. A lot of people seem to feel that way - the air traffic is getting really strict." Even he has had to book a timeslot to set off with La Verbena alongside a few other skyships bound for Torchline, just to avoid unexpected collisions in the air.
Finishing his banana and raising his eyebrows at the possibility of even one good thing in Stormbreak's demise, the botanist scoffs and nearly chokes as Kai comes out with it. "You know," he says, "Flora has been trying to persuade me to move down to Torchline for so long, if you told me she had orchestrated all of this just to get me in the house, I would be tempted to believe you." He grins, though, the thought of his sister a fond one. "You are right, though. It will be nice to liven up that big old place."
"That place raised me, it felt like. It is where I had all of my firsts. And there is no other place like it in Caido - nowhere else you could get a tattoo, a cocktail and then go window shopping all at 2am." His laughter is warm and easy, drawn from memories and occasions in those cobbled alleyways. "It had its downsides and shadier places, do not get me wrong. But that is what made it what it was."
Blinking away the nostalgia before it drags him under, Mateo angles himself to look back at Kai properly. "I am glad. Better to be out of here sooner rather than later. A lot of people seem to feel that way - the air traffic is getting really strict." Even he has had to book a timeslot to set off with La Verbena alongside a few other skyships bound for Torchline, just to avoid unexpected collisions in the air.
Finishing his banana and raising his eyebrows at the possibility of even one good thing in Stormbreak's demise, the botanist scoffs and nearly chokes as Kai comes out with it. "You know," he says, "Flora has been trying to persuade me to move down to Torchline for so long, if you told me she had orchestrated all of this just to get me in the house, I would be tempted to believe you." He grins, though, the thought of his sister a fond one. "You are right, though. It will be nice to liven up that big old place."
i've told you time and time again
i'm not as think as you drunk i am
i'm not as think as you drunk i am
