HOTARU
"Ah, then what would you label yourself? A bandit? A ruffian?" She cocks a hip to place her basket in the cradle it creates as she turns to him to deliver this line, fluttering her eyes in an exaggerated manner that is intended more for laughs than any deliberate seduction. He's certainly proving to be entertaining at the very least, which makes for a better morning on her part. Certainly preferable to the inevitable thought-spiral she tends to go on when left alone too long. A laugh bubbles out of her at his disdain, fingers raking through her hair and turning her face to the flakes of snow that come to kiss her eyelids and cheeks. "More for me to enjoy then." Not everyone was made for the mountains and ice, and many had left for warmer climates when offered a place in her kingdom. Though she couldn't understand it she could at least enjoy the fact that it meant her empire wasn't overrun by chatter-teethed assholes moaning about the cold, unable to see the beauty all around them on display at every hour. Opening her eyes, she tilts her upturned face enough to give him an amused, narrowed gaze. "There's enough viewing going around here to give a blind man sight," Hotaru quips, amused by this handsome young man.
"First timer, though I haven't had to call myself that in a while." Okay that one even makes her laugh genuinely, significantly brighter than her purring, velveteen laughs she normally deigned to give. "No, I'm merely lucky. I found a few scattered members of my family here, and they have experienced it before. I'm merely doing the grunt work, can you imagine?" Hotaru lifts a hand delicately to her breast, feigning an expression of betrayal that she holds for an impressive time before letting it crumble into an inquisitive look. "What's your method for LongNight? Wing it?" He certainly seems the type.
over time
even the sharpest thorns
will become soft
