Perhaps a dozen clever quips, thoughts, bits of innuendo, bon mots, and other sorts of verbal play spun in the bard's head like a wheel, and he sifted through them to find the right comment to keep up the verbal wordplay he enjoyed so much with the blonde engineer, keeping just enough going to possibly raise eyebrows in the room while still retaining the pact-of-banter that the two of them had shared more than once.
The wheel turned through the crisp but non-threatening dialogue at the bar, surviving a number of stray thoughts about what mayhem might ensue between the curious Sultansworn, the heavy-voiced armored food critic and the mass-of-muscle he knew only from a few brief exchanges with Berrod's associates.
Of course, none saw anything but the grinning lips start to part...
...and their sudden morphing into a toothy grimace as the disheveled Elezen burst in the door, shouting into the room. He hadn't heard that voice in moons, since... the last time he'd seen her pull a stunt in the street.
He scratched his bearded cheek, and spoke in low tones to Cliodhna.
"I'm going to guess we won't have the barmaid come over here anytime soon."
The wheel turned through the crisp but non-threatening dialogue at the bar, surviving a number of stray thoughts about what mayhem might ensue between the curious Sultansworn, the heavy-voiced armored food critic and the mass-of-muscle he knew only from a few brief exchanges with Berrod's associates.
Of course, none saw anything but the grinning lips start to part...
...and their sudden morphing into a toothy grimace as the disheveled Elezen burst in the door, shouting into the room. He hadn't heard that voice in moons, since... the last time he'd seen her pull a stunt in the street.
He scratched his bearded cheek, and spoke in low tones to Cliodhna.
"I'm going to guess we won't have the barmaid come over here anytime soon."
"But in the laugh there was another voice. A clearer laugh, an ironic laugh. A laugh which laughs because it chooses not to weep."
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