❝ oh, i’m going to enjoy making my first impression with you. how am i doing so far? ❞ @lunaetor / conversational starters ( accepting )
—— he's been sitting here with Monoco, each of them taking a place 'cross an upturned stump. They've been playing some game with river stones and cards, the rules complex and seemingly nonsensical in that way that makes entirely perfect sense to the players.
The gestral eventually grouses and rises, words tossed between them with the parrying banter of two folk long familiar with one another, and Verso's left grinning and cleaning up the cards as Monoco leaves; the small colorful river stones, smooth and worn as marble, are carefully scooped up and slid into a pouch.
Pale eyes give a startled glance sideways and up as he's approached, and he gives a twitch of a smile. " Depends, " he muses, starting to pick up the cards to restack them. " What impression would that be? "













