You might just [ Agreed and amused. ] and we're not that badly off.
[ Thanks for all the fish? A bad joke, perhaps (and despite some particularly nasty stories in the Alliance, no, the Almyrans have never been cannibals). ]
I do recall, myself— you didn't do well with heat.
[ Not for the first time, though for the first time in what must be years, it strikes Claude how different they are— intrinsically. Hot and cold, trust and distrust, open and closed. He could wax a touch more poetic about it, sink into the thought, but.
Claude looks over his shoulder, and rather than saying any of that, winks. ]
Are you honored, your Highness?
[ Teasing. As if it was remarkable that Claude would remember a classmate's weakness. ]
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[ Thanks for all the fish? A bad joke, perhaps (and despite some particularly nasty stories in the Alliance, no, the Almyrans have never been cannibals). ]
I do recall, myself— you didn't do well with heat.
[ Not for the first time, though for the first time in what must be years, it strikes Claude how different they are— intrinsically. Hot and cold, trust and distrust, open and closed. He could wax a touch more poetic about it, sink into the thought, but.
Claude looks over his shoulder, and rather than saying any of that, winks. ]
Are you honored, your Highness?
[ Teasing. As if it was remarkable that Claude would remember a classmate's weakness. ]