Just as she had told Gavin, Kire had gone back to rest after lunch and woke up in time to have dinner. Busy over her own meal, she was quiet when Ruli sat beside her, though she did make note of the haircut and the fact that he had clearly bathed properly by now. As she chewed her food, her gaze fell on the errant strands that refused to be weighed down, sticking out from what would have otherwise been a neat haircut. She stopped herself from snorting, continuing her meal in silence until Rab and then Gavin joined them. 

Gavin seemed to have joined them mostly out of awkwardness with sitting with complete strangers, so Kire listened to the exchange between Rab and Ruli, pleased that Rab had taken to Envy’s lessons already. She noted with interest that little bit of information Ruli had said about himself, as well as the enthusiasm he displayed when he found he could converse with Rab in this language. Where did Ruli come from? He had been a half-elf, and from the way he had revealed this to her before, he wasn’t particularly happy with the circumstances. Then again, there was a lot about himself Ruli didn’t seem to like to talk about, which made this exchange rather refreshing for her. 
“I’m staying, too,” Gavin put in after a while. “I feel like this place would be good for me. Amria could wait. Oh, and Envy might help me learn healing magic.” 

“Oh. Well, that would be bloody useful,” Kire commented, smiling as she wondered if saving her life had prompted his interest in it. She looked sideways at Ruli’s stubborn strands. “How fitting. Seems like your hair is as stubborn as you are.” She smirked at that before reaching into her satchel, taking out the pouch of gold she had brought days ago. It was noticeably much lighter. “So. As agreed, I owe you for breaking our little agreement, and I’ve got some leftover coin we could burn through before I go back home sometime tomorrow. What’s it going to be, wine? Ale? Mead? Vinegar?” She made a face at the last, in case it wasn’t clear she didn’t really consider that an option.