Huevar slipped off his ladyfriend's lap at Cedevax's approach. Finally, business is at hand. He spoke with a surprisingly deep voice for a gnome, one that is apparently very good at crooning songs.<strong>"<em>You're</em> Cedevax? My, isn't that uncanny? Just the other day I spoke with a young man with no shirt calling himself by that very name, and suggested he meet me here yesterday. Alas, it was a good friend's birthday, so I may have missed the fellow. He looked very much like you. Nipples and all.</strong>" Huevar stroked his moustaches thoughtfully.<strong>"What are the odds? well, Fourth-day Cedevax, i'm glad you have... Oh! Now we're getting somewhere! Rha, Gillie, and..."</strong>He points at Gustavo a few times, snapping his fingers until the young man began introducing himself.<strong>"<em>Gustavo</em>, yes, of course, I never forget a face. Well. perhaps we give the rest of the crew a moment to blunder in?"</strong>He produces a heavy-looking pouch from his belt, tossing it from hand to hand, the jingle of coins within.<strong>"And then we can start talking business."</strong><br/><br/>After Huevar had left her lap, the lady arranged her skirts so that she could cross her legs decently. The sudden amount of attention she was garnering brought a rosy color to her cheeks, but she didn't shy away from it.<strong>"Gustavo, was it? You should know better than to call a woman plump when you just met her!"</strong>she clucked her tongue with playful reprove, taking up Huevar's lute - it was a tiny thing in her hands, and the few simple chords shes trummed out would not impress anyone. With only a sidelong look to Gillie through thick lashes, she offered,<strong>"I <em>do</em> love getting my mouth on a warm, buttered muffin first thing in the morning."</strong><br/><br/>At this, Huevar gets a distracted look, forgetting to toss his coin purse between his hands - it just hovers in the air for a moment before gradually dissipating away into a trail of golden sparks.<strong> "Ah, oh. What were we talking about? Ahem. yes. New hires, wasn't it?"</strong>he tossed a<em>look</em>back at his lady friend, who just pouted and shrugged, before giving a wink to the female gnome and strumming out another easy tune.<br/>