Home is the place where, when you have to go there,/They have to take you in.

[shadearchivist]

Characters: Ienzo, Aeleus, Even, Namine, Xion, Bolin
Content: A family dinner
Location: The apartment above the tea shop, fourth district, Traverse Town
Time: Evening
Warnings: It's a family dinner with the basement crew, Namine, Xion, and Bolin. I think it stands as its own warning.



It wasn't as if it should be hard to remain civil with Even; they'd known each other for years and despite the unfortunate way in which Even had died (which of course would not be mentioned) and Ienzo's relative lack of feeling about it at the time, they were friends. Or coworkers, at least, which after ten years should have resembled friendship. It was just difficult to feel as if Even wasn't being ungrateful for one's efforts, though, even if the man hadn't said or done anything to indicate that he wasn't.

The rest of the company would be wholly welcome and pleasant, and Ienzo smiled impartially at everyone who had arrived. Namine and Aeleus were always good company and he didn't know anything bad of Xion or Bolin, though that might simply indicate that he needed to look harder.

At any rate, the table was set, there was a good deal of excellent food, and questionable-to-good company.

Comments

[colorbymemory]

Really, they'd run out of most of the small talk subjects that Namine knew of. The only other thing was the weather, but there wasn't much of that to talk about. Ienzo's suggestion was welcome. "Yes, any seat is okay."

She, Ienzo, and Aeleus had places at the table that they gravitated towards when it was just them. With so many others joining them, though, the usual pattern was a bit disrupted, so she'd wait to see where everyone else preferred to sit.

[earthshatter]

It would take getting used to, yes, but it wasn't so strange as to be unknown. It was simply something would take a moment of adjustment. All the same, they weren't going to get anywhere if no one took the initiative to simply take a seat. However for all that Aeleus might have been perfectly willing to do so, there was also the fact that no one had yet made any indication of where the kitchen was, leaving Xion standing there with a container of slowly thawing ice cream.

"It's through there," he commented, indicating a doorway through which the kitchen could presumably be found.