Krysanthia was not too surprised to hear that there was not any particularly memorable news from Akaala or Hebra city. After all while it was a very pleasant place to live from what she remembered and little had changed on the larger scale of things as long as she had lived there. And the other Rito seemed far more invested in her profession than the everyday comings and goings of Akaala. In fact Krysanthia found Tinnuns excitement for her profession infectious, and most of her attention had been on the food to begin with, in one way or another.

[b]"Akaala trades spices with Hyrule? I'm surprised, I've never been able to recognize them used here before. But then I am usually very occupied and I have not met many Rito chefs here that are so skilled, I think. Or maybe the resident chefs here are used to cooking in the Hylian style? Until I met you today the last time I'd seen dishes like yours was when I was a young girl in Hebra, when my parents were-"[/b] Krysanthia stuttered a bit then, taken by surprise at how much the mention of her parents still hurt. She hadn't thought about their mysterious disappearance in a long time. [b]"W-when my patents used to cook for our inn."[/b] She finished desperately hoping the conversation stayed on food. With everything that had happened in the last two days Krysanthia doubted she could speak of her parents right now without bursting into tears and embarrassing herself even more than she already had.

It was that moment that a particularly attractive man in a fine robe approached Tinnuns to buy food for himself and what she assumed was his date, a likewise attractive Zora woman. From first glance Krysanthia guessed this had to be a Lord and his Lady, the Zora holding herself with the proud stature of nobility. Instinctively she turned aside from them and ducked her head, eyes going to the ground. It was still reflex having served a prestigious mage for well over a decade, and even Anaria patient help hadn't broken all of those old habits.  

Her heart skipped a beat as she found herself locking eyes with this beautiful man since he had leaned in close to her all of a sudden. He had red eyes. Was that normal for a Hylian? No, she decided she would have noticed that by now, it had to be a rare instance in this case. She could not look away from his eyes until he broke eye contact first, and it wasn't just because of the color, there was something in his stare that she felt she should recognize. But she could not place the feeling and he was just as suddenly standing straight up again, attention between Tinnuns and his lady.

Belatedly Krysanthia realized he had actually whispered something to her. When she realized what he had said she was rather mortified and it showed as her beak dropped open and feathers flattened against her body. She quickly turned away simultaneously apologizing for the state of her appearance and desperately trying to wipe the mess away.

While she had been talking with Tinnun she had succeeded in forgetting the state she was in after her crash. Now she had been shocked back into that fact and by a nobleman no less! As she did what she could to clean up she found herself making keening sounds and quickly held her breath. She felt close to making yet another spectacle of herself and was determined not to do so. She could let it all out later when she was alone. She hoped.

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