Peiter was right about being so very close to successfully casting a proper spell. With how far they had gone, Sabine was inwardly disappointed that he wanted to pause where they were. However, she could understand Peiter's exhaustion. She would periodically feel the same way at the end of Meesei's lessons.

"You did well." Sabine gave Peiter a wide smile, but it didn't last long. A turn of expression crept over her, causing her to look at the ground and lower her lips to a small frown. She squeezed Peiter's hands for a moment, then looked up to him, trying to regain her previous smile. Instead, her smile became mischievous, "Keep practising. If you cast a spell, I might let you kiss me." She began to stand up with the intent of walking off to join the conversations with the pride.

Tzirret's neck burned as if all its muscles had clenched at once. He stared at La'khay, terrified, "Ah...Tzirret...Khajiit has no desire...-I mean, not that I wouldn't...n-n-no...no gold, Khajiit has no gold-b-b-but this one does not want you to think..."

Everyone enjoyed a laugh at Tzirret's expense, not least of which Uthri. Though, it was Uthri that spoke out in her pack mate's defence. "You push the boy too far, La'khay," she said through her own remaining laughter, "Let's play nice. Tzirret?" She turned to the stammering Khajiit, "Do not take us all too seriously."

Janius commented sympathetically to Colours after he finished, "How harrowing. We had to get a system going whenever we travelled aboard ships. We took one on the way here from the Imperial City via Leyawiin. We have to line it up so that the full moons won't show during the entire voyage. Then on, if anyone has to turn, they do so in the sturdiest cabin with a sack of meat. It's an ordeal, watching over them and making sure the crew doesn't notice. They always assume a land dreugh climbed aboard when they see the scratch marks and beast spirits [i]hate[/i] confined spaces. Most of it is about trying to make sure it doesn't come to that in the first place."

"Janius," Tzirret spoke, confused, "This one was told that dreugh do not climb onto ships."

"They don't, Tzirret, not normally," Janius flashed a grin, "That's not to say it's unheard of."