<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/3/3f/Tanahome%27s_Dice.jpg)</div><div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/61/Isashi_Arima_Live.png)</div><strong>Tanahome Smith</strong>(https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=337106.msg16009816#msg16009816)<br/><br/>The Japanese-American man blinked when he saw the ethnically blended amazon approaching him.  He didn't stammer nervously the way he would have fifteen or even—in this circumstance—ten years ago.  He definitely hesitated, though.  She had to be able to see his nerves.<br/><br/>It was when she commented on his dice bag that the tableau broken.  He smiled slowly. His smile brightened as she continued.  Rising slowly, the Asian looked up into the sienna skinned girls' eyes.  He blushed a little bit.  There was something very intimate about a three inch height differential between a man and a woman...<br/><br/>He was used to being the taller one!<br/><br/><em>I could always roll a natural 20...</em><br/><br/>“It's strange, isn't it?” he said with a growing smile, holding her eyes just long enough to be sincerely friendly without fatiguing her, “When I was a pudgy teenager, I used to think that beautiful people never got nervous and stammered when they met someone new.<br/><br/>“I suppose I'm easy on the eyes now that I've slimmed down and built some muscle, but I still stammer...  Well, usually babble these days.  My name's Tanahome, and...”<br/><br/>He held up five fingers, “It now takes me a whole hand to count the number of times in my adult life I've had to look up at a woman.<br/><br/>Please sit with me.”  He gestured to a table and, if she followed, pulled out a chair for her.  “Are you staff or a gamer?  And will I be playing with an amazon or a goddess?”<br/><br/>Tanahome grinned and put his dice bag down in front of him before sitting next to her.  Then he laughed, “Oh, jeez, I just quoted Odysseus didn't I?  I didn't even do it on purpose!”<br/>