Kai shifts automatically away from the strangers. He doesn't like that attention from anyone, and he tells himself that his skin is crawling as he catches the scent of something his body tries to insist he needs.
The diplomats all seem to be planning on standing around, useless, Kai thinks, and only to be expected, until the elfin one asks about it and tries to move closer to Kai. Kai takes the excuse and steps quickly forward, to try to put some distance between them as he starts to lead.
"Only danger in the first part of this is the possibility of a bird crapping on you." Kai's Singlish is unaccented, without the usual smoothness of the elfin.
The human diplomat's mouth opens and he looks askance as his visitors, mortified at the possibility of offending them. That makes Kai relax a little - at least this is incompetence rather than him being set up.
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The diplomats all seem to be planning on standing around, useless, Kai thinks, and only to be expected, until the elfin one asks about it and tries to move closer to Kai. Kai takes the excuse and steps quickly forward, to try to put some distance between them as he starts to lead.
"Only danger in the first part of this is the possibility of a bird crapping on you." Kai's Singlish is unaccented, without the usual smoothness of the elfin.
The human diplomat's mouth opens and he looks askance as his visitors, mortified at the possibility of offending them. That makes Kai relax a little - at least this is incompetence rather than him being set up.