Tavi coughed awkwardly. “Uh… Okay. Ask away.” He really wasn’t doing a good job at this whole ‘pretend it never happened’ thing, but he was making an effort.
Trying hard to ignore the air of oddity clinging to the air around them, Bentack shuffled his considerable weight between his feet before speaking, "It is about--err, Maben's father," he explained. "Rrrm. I do not speak to him often, but I have run into him a few times since she introduced us. And he always does this . . .thing when he sees me. With his mandibles. I want to know what the hell it means."













