[ And this is why Timcanpy likes Rio; she doesn't try to eat him. Also she's fun to ride around on, as evidenced by how he leaves Allen's shoulder to flutter down and set on top of her head, puffing up and sitting there contentedly.

But ooooh, Allen takes the bowl with gusto. And since Viktor okayed it, does take a hearty spoonful right away. Although it... takes a moment of awkward consideration and moving, given his bandages. ]

It reminds me a little of curries. It's good! [ Spicy! But he likes it; he spent a fair amount of time in Indian and enjoyed all the cuisine immensely. He can't eat it that quickly even if he does enjoy spicy food, but... Viktor may be onto something there. He can't just wolf it down as easily. But it is very quick spoonful after spoonful still....

But, speaking of gloves -- he raises up both of his hands to demonstrate for a moment. There's a short, well made black leather glove on his left hand, and a long and extremely form-fitting one on his right that disappears fully up into the coat somewhere. A bicep glove he can actually still have good dexterity in. ]

She's definitely really good at making gloves. She even got it to fit around my left hand. [ Even with the armor plating on it. And with this material it no longer tears when he invokes! Look! (Yes, he's wiggling his fingers.) ]

I'm sure she'd like the business and to be able to help, too. We were both out collecting more of those orbs. [ Which, oh, speaking of...!

He takes his duffle from beside him and sets it up on the table. There's a faint glasslike 'clink' from inside. ]

We collected quite a lot.