<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ccff">Lucian watched Tessa leave with a smile, then looked down at Ayla. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4da6ff">“You are very welcome my dear.” </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ccff">He turned to Drakus, smiling as she talked about one facet of their relationship. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4da6ff">“Well, you try to hit me. She has only ever managed to get three or four shots on me. She gets a good reward if she ever does manage it, so it’s worth her time.” </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ccff">He then moved with Ayla, seeing Alexi walking to Nel, and put his arm around Drakus’s shoulder.</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4da6ff"> “So, tell me about this one when she was younger. I bet she was a real handful…”</span><br/><br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff99ff">Ordenel sighed a sigh of relief as the situation resolved itself, and smiled when he saw Alexi getting close as the rest of his group wandered away. He did look so much like his mother, it was insane that he hadn’t figured it out first.</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff4dff">”Nonsense. The event is over, nothing happened, so let us be merry!” </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff99ff">His normal personality was back, and he looked at Alexi curiously.</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff4dff"> “What do you want to know about her?”</span>