"Oh certainly! I know you wouldn't simply play just because I requested! It's only because you were already going to."

Above all else, it's nice to find someone you can just bullshit around with so casually, where things are understood and never need to be spoken aloud.

Eda plays and Rue settles beside her, dainty hands in their lap, posture straight though perhaps just a touch tipped towards the woman, eyes closed to focus fully on the music being played. This is exactly what Rue needed - a big event to find some much needed control in, the constant social demands they've been enwreathed in their whole life, and then this tiny pocket of gentle peace. All in all, it's a perfect day.

"Oh Eda, that's most lovely. That's your creation?"