With Janius' size compared to Kaleeth, she practically had to crawl up his body after he pulled her down with him to get her head on the same level as his. "Lively? I guess I am. This has all brought back a lot of memories of my last few days in the village before we left, all those years ago. Mostly, they're memories that just have me worried about Julan, and him making some kind of huge mistake with Leeus. Or accidentally offending the whole village. That's nothing you didn't already know." 

For a moment, Kaleeth allowed her head to rest on Janius' shoulder as she looked into his eyes. "But there are good memories there too. I don't think I could ever forget how I felt being around you. Even though I had a hard time understanding half of what you were saying most of the time, you still made me feel just...good being around you. You were so much nicer to me than a lot of the hunters, and I was really just happy to be with you. Learning what you were did frighten me, but at the same time...it just didn't matter. I still remember how you willingly helped me on a dangerous hunt, then bravely protected my defenseless hide against a full-grown wamasu. When I looked at you after that, you were like a hero out of one of the Treeminder's stories."

Kaleeth lifted her head up, then interrupted herself by planting another, long kiss straight on his snout, evidently not impeded in the slightest by his werewolf body's size or proportions. If anything, his head was now closer to the shape of an Argonian's. She ran her fingers through the fur on his head, and again started to rub him behind his ears. "I honestly don't know what ever attracted you to me back then. I was so pathetic compared to what I am now." Kaleeth added, though still in a distinctly positive mood.

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While Shevari was carefully focused on timing Rhazii, Ahnasha was brainstorming internally on how she might insert herself into her parents' conversation without it seeming too convenient, or otherwise drawing attention to the fact that she certainly did not want them discussing the topic. Unfortunately, there were no good ideas that came to her mind, but at the very least, it was also true that Calia's explanation was not outright harmful to Ahnasha either. She was painting her as a [i]skilled[/i] mage, not a blasphemous one. 

"Well, that is...not something I expected at all." S'nashi replied, her expression showing just the same surprise as her words. It was surprising enough to hear that she had made it here so quickly with the spells of her mage friend, but that my daughter is actually a skilled mage herself...I don't know how she finds the time for so much work with having to run a store at the same time."

Gwindir nodded in agreement with his wife. "I never would have thought that to be something normal people could accomplish."

Ahnasha nudged Fendros slightly, still whispering. "Maybe we should try to slide back into the conversation? Sit down to eat, or something?"