"Not quite the pumpkin, not yet, but I am glad you recognise the idea." Bastien smiled at Rexanna, always happy when his work managed to communicate what he wanted; so often it didn't work and someone would ask him a question completely at odds with what he'd been trying to do with a piece.
Rexanna's guest seemed friendly and receptable enough to his antics, so Bastien already liked her. When he heard who she actually was, he raised his eyebrows and looked between the two. "Rexanna, you seem to be producing new family members by the day at the moment. You are rather embarrassing me here with no De Rosieres clan." A little chuckle leaving him, he turned back to Hotaru.
"Oh, that it were my home. No, even though we are soon to be wed me and Rexanna do not quite yet officially live together - something we should likely discuss, I suppose." Bastien looked at Rexanna and tapped a finger to his chin, thinking about it. They spent so much time at each others houses it hadn't felt necessary before, but when he thought of it...having a space that was their home, not just the others one was visiting...it was appealing.
Bastien
Can you hear me you peers and privvy counsellors
I stand before you naked to the eyes
