"No need for apologies. If I could've sensed yours, I probably would've given you cause," Arche replied, with another deeply dry look.
"Though I suppose I've had more practice at reaching across the aisle lately. Thankfully so, now that we're stuck among this motley group. Don't know that I would've been quite so good at holding my tongue a few years earlier." Which was a funny claim considering he'd opened this whole conversation doing his level best to antagonize Hendrik, of course -- but perhaps that only meant he'd been even worse in the past, who knew.
"By the way, though -- exactly how long have you been sitting out here in the cold scribbling away, anyhow?" For a moment, another look of amusement passed across his face, though he was adjusting his cloak again as he said it. After years of living on a rainforest planet, and then spending the last few months in the jungles of Rishi and Yavin 4, his own ability to deal with the cold was not as robust as it had once been.
"I must confess I find it hard to believe a bunch of plants could be alluring enough to risk frostbite for. Have you done a lot of... this sort of thing? Gardening?"
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"Though I suppose I've had more practice at reaching across the aisle lately. Thankfully so, now that we're stuck among this motley group. Don't know that I would've been quite so good at holding my tongue a few years earlier." Which was a funny claim considering he'd opened this whole conversation doing his level best to antagonize Hendrik, of course -- but perhaps that only meant he'd been even worse in the past, who knew.
"By the way, though -- exactly how long have you been sitting out here in the cold scribbling away, anyhow?" For a moment, another look of amusement passed across his face, though he was adjusting his cloak again as he said it. After years of living on a rainforest planet, and then spending the last few months in the jungles of Rishi and Yavin 4, his own ability to deal with the cold was not as robust as it had once been.
"I must confess I find it hard to believe a bunch of plants could be alluring enough to risk frostbite for. Have you done a lot of... this sort of thing? Gardening?"