<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ffcc">Alexi could see the wistfulness in the man's eyes when he talked about Ardinya. It was a look hed seen before in the merfolk woman's eyes. He smiled at the memory a look of sadness crossing his face. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6">"I wish.... I wish i could have met her..."</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ffcc"> he murmured softly. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6">"My father said she was working on something incredibly secretive before she died... Kept disappearing for meetings and other work, barely ever home."</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ffcc"> he was curious about that. His parents didn't seem to have gotten along much, but perhaps the master of rumors would know something more.</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6"> "Do you know what she was working on? I mean i'm sure you hear all sorts of things..."</span>