Amadan's bright, bubbly demeanor would take some getting used to. It had been some ages since last he had allowed anyone to share his residence, and even then, it had taken him a good while to warm up to the idea - longer still to get over the inevitable fallout that had resulted.<br/><br/>Sharing living quarters with anyone else, much less a stranger, was not a good idea. Everything in the Hex'ras told him to back out right then, to show Amadan the door while he still could. By all accounts, it was his right. What business did he have taking in random Romani who wandered into his territory? Amadan had surely fended for himself before and could do it again. Showing him out was not outside the scope of possibility.<br/><br/>But... it was. The wandering spider within the violinist kept him from acting on his instinct to preserve his solitude. Hex'ras cared little for other species, but they had a sense of fierce loyalty to their own when certain boundaries were observed. By all accounts, it fell upon him as a sort of responsibility to ensure that Amadan and Phoneutria<i>nigriventer </i>found a way to co-exist, rather than annihilate one another. If only for past sins, he told himself, he owed it to the spider. Housing Amadan would simply be a byproduct.<br/><br/>Amadan played and Drae, for once, deigned to listen. Mercifully, the violinist had chosen a tune that did little to offend his ears. If anything, the long, poignant strains flowing from the strings did well to quiet his internal conflict just enough for him to enjoy it. Despite himself, he could almost imagine a dark, quiet evening in his upstairs den, perched in his favored armchair pouring over a book while Amadan played. The image appeared in his mind's eye for all of a moment before he batted it away, unwilling to indulge any traces of a quaint fantasy.<br/><br/>"... You play beautifully," he admitted when at last the tune concluded. "If you had led with that outside, I might not have tried to kick you off the street." It was as much a compliment as the words that had preceded it.