<strong>Location:</strong>Feasting Hall<br/><strong>Tag:</strong>Elias<br/><br/>"Yes, you can touch me."  Iori half-smirks and offers a hand, palm up, to the boy.  Her skin is warm, very much so-- the warmth of a thick blanket on a cold night and textured something like snakeskin, patterned but supple and smooth.  "If it's any comfort," she adds, gesturing to the knot of people gathering on the other side with her cup of wine, "you may be a pretty face, but it's not going to be your only virtue if you were the one called.  I've heard the Bodhisattva's capable of turning a pigkeeper into a princess, so there's something else you've got to have.  Connections, the potential for personal power just like theirs, or power you're keeping hidden from us..."<br/><br/>She trails off pointedly, then shrugs it off.  "Anjushri doesn't strike me as the person who throws parties for people she barely knows unless she's got a reason to get them all here.  If your name's on the invitation, there's a reason."<br/><br/><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Feasting Hall<br/><strong>Tags:</strong>Void, Chorgath, Vali<br/>"Maybe you can tell me what you do like to eat later, ne?" Samaro nods and favors Pebble-Eater with a smile, rising back as his attention shifts back to Chorgath for a moment.  "I cannot and will not even try to justify their actions," he answers wryly, "but the fact that they happened at all makes it more difficult for ones like myself to coexist.  Subsequently..."  A hand up, and down, indicating himself.  "Measures."<br/><br/>To Vali, he shakes his head.  "While I have paid visits to the distant West in recent years, my origins can be traced to the distant East."<br/><br/>Howls nods affirmingly back to Jubal and settles back into his cushion: enjoying the wine, raising a eyebrow at the appearance of Sanger.  There's a bit of a hairy eyeball going there, assessing the golden-armored man, but Howls apparently decides it's okay.  "Howls Skyward," he announces, jerking a thumb at himself.  Then, in order, other people get the thumb.  "Void Face Lover, Mnemon Jubal, Vali, Chorgath, Quiet Samaro, Pebble-Eater, Rheeta, Vashti, Lightwater, Whiteblossom, Tashtu..."<br/><br/>The thumb has moved on beyond the guests and Howls is now blithely and obliviously naming the servants as well.