Somehow that's more unfortunate, that his parents wouldn't be good at doing things with him even if they made the time, but the sad look on her face could easily be mistaken for continued grief over losing her parents. "My dad taught me to ride a bike, and both my parents taught me to cook... not much from scratch, though. They both worked full time. Not as much as yours did, I'm sure." The last thing she wants to imply is that her parents were just as busy as his and yet still made plenty of time for her. "My mom was a literature professor, but she didn't have classes in the summer."
Nothing short of a Nexus LOL would cause Adia to speak to anyone, let alone Viatorus, in a condescending way, but she does smile a little at his idea of gathering up the flu virus. "I wish it were that easy, but with viruses like that, prevention is the best bet. We haven't had a bad breakout in a long time."
"Your world has a fae realm?" She forgets about the topic at hand for a moment, surprised and once again eager to share her knowledge. "I just learned what that is from someone in the Nexus. Have you been? Do the fae ever come into the regular world?" The Nexus does sound less dangerous than the Fae Realm, by comparison. Or maybe the difference is in who resides there.
"Oh... um, yeah, they told me." Not through an arranged marriage, that's for sure. Maybe her parents' differences don't make the best anecdote. "They attended the same university... a friend of my dad's dragged him to a house party." She smiles faintly at the secondhand memory. "Dad liked parties about as much as I did, so when they got there, he made a beeline for the snack table. My mom was in charge of keeping the chip bowl filled, so he just stayed there and ate chips and talked to her. Then, right before he left, she asked for his number." Her smile turns wry. Her mother was a lot of things, but coy was not one of them. "They were together ever since."
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Date: 2017-04-12 05:47 pm (UTC)Nothing short of a Nexus LOL would cause Adia to speak to anyone, let alone Viatorus, in a condescending way, but she does smile a little at his idea of gathering up the flu virus. "I wish it were that easy, but with viruses like that, prevention is the best bet. We haven't had a bad breakout in a long time."
"Your world has a fae realm?" She forgets about the topic at hand for a moment, surprised and once again eager to share her knowledge. "I just learned what that is from someone in the Nexus. Have you been? Do the fae ever come into the regular world?" The Nexus does sound less dangerous than the Fae Realm, by comparison. Or maybe the difference is in who resides there.
"Oh... um, yeah, they told me." Not through an arranged marriage, that's for sure. Maybe her parents' differences don't make the best anecdote. "They attended the same university... a friend of my dad's dragged him to a house party." She smiles faintly at the secondhand memory. "Dad liked parties about as much as I did, so when they got there, he made a beeline for the snack table. My mom was in charge of keeping the chip bowl filled, so he just stayed there and ate chips and talked to her. Then, right before he left, she asked for his number." Her smile turns wry. Her mother was a lot of things, but coy was not one of them. "They were together ever since."