[Just... backing up a bit there, Zeno. I can handle the cup, really - there is no real question as to who's going to win a tug-of-war between the White Dragon and... well, most other people he runs across, so Kija takes it and peers into it. Something thick and brown and curiously sweet-smelling stares back. No doubt this drink is very nice, but Kija likes his tongue the way it is.
[He is also pretty sure that he was not talking about the drinks because they were not there.]
Actually, I was thinking of...
[Of how anyone who was as - as mindbendingly old as Zeno managed not to betray that constantly. He would be. There has to be some kind of knack to it. On the other hand, how exactly did you go about asking such a thing?]
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[Just... backing up a bit there, Zeno. I can handle the cup, really - there is no real question as to who's going to win a tug-of-war between the White Dragon and... well, most other people he runs across, so Kija takes it and peers into it. Something thick and brown and curiously sweet-smelling stares back. No doubt this drink is very nice, but Kija likes his tongue the way it is.
[He is also pretty sure that he was not talking about the drinks because they were not there.]
Actually, I was thinking of...
[Of how anyone who was as - as mindbendingly old as Zeno managed not to betray that constantly. He would be. There has to be some kind of knack to it. On the other hand, how exactly did you go about asking such a thing?]
Something else.