As Janius handed Leaps to Kaleeth, Ariel thought about Janius' previous behaviour with her, and likely anyone woman he met. Ariel couldn't hold back a wide smile of amusement at the event that this Argonian tribal girl had garnered a more permanent affection from him. She must be quite special. The question of how Kaleeth had become a lycan was something Ariel was curious about. She hoped that it wasn't complacency on Janius' part, but had Ariel known that Kaleeth was a different kind of lycan entirely, that theory would have quickly become false. Ariel couldn't really think of a polite and discrete way to ask about it before Leaps took an interest in her.

Holding her previously shocked hand, Ariel laughed uneasily and responded, "I'm quite fine I think. Leaps is an energetic little thing, isn't he?" In that moment, Leaps managed to aggressively twist himself free of Kaleeth and scramble across the table to her. Ariel held her arms between herself and the hatchling, but Leaps only went far enough to sniff at her hands. Ariel opened her scrunched together eyelids and let out a very nervous laugh. Leaps chirped back at her and ran to jump on her front, causing her to let out a small shriek of surprise. Leaps clung onto the front of her dress rather harmlessly and after a few seconds, Ariel's previous fear changed into what was mostly just a tolerance. She was as still as a statue, though.

"Rub him under the chin, he likes that." Janius suggested, grinning at the scene.

Ariel shakily held out one finger and began to stroke Leaps' chin as Janius suggested and eventually her face curled back into a smile. Once Ariel was comfortable enough again, she looked up at Kaleeth and compared the pattern of her armour to that of the wamasu hatchling holding onto her dress. "What an extraordinary turn of events. I am glad things worked out."

This time it was Sabine who wanted to ask a question. "Ariel, what did you and Rukeewei argue about?" The previous mentions of Rukeewei had left her curious, but not quite with the same social pressure to avoid awkward topics.

Ariel's smile faded and she shifted to hold Leaps more steadily as he inspected her and the light perfume she was wearing. "Oh, it was nothing really. It just started off with the entire previous week not having any free time overlapping, and then he insisted that I stop working so hard, then I got angry and insulted his inn, then he got angry and insulted my shop. It was all quite childish. You need not worry, Sabine."

Sabine glanced to Fendros and Ahnasha, then looked to Ariel again. "Ahnasha and Fendros have argued before, but they make up for it. They say sorry to each other and understand."

"I know, I should just go and apologise. I'm just...I'm just worried he's still upset about it." Ariel said, facing Leaps as if she was talking to him.

Being the inexperienced girl that she was, Sabine didn't have the answer. Across the table, Fendros knew that Ariel wouldn't know unless she tried, but he would be surprised if Rukeewei was still upset about something so small. In fact, he was still surprised at how much of a fuss was being made about the whole thing. Fendros looked at Ahnasha, glancing down to Rhazii for a moment and back up to her. "We don't usually stay upset about that kind of thing for very long, right Ahna?" Fendros said, rubbing Ahnasha's shoulder.

Janius leaned back and was about to put it a bit more bluntly than either of them, but it sounded like Ahnasha and Fendros had this well in hand.