Anzu's relieved that John's not going for establishing anything but friendship with his handshake; even if he trusts Lev's evaluation of people, and even if his prominent status and reputation back home have ensured that for years now, nobody within the Talons or even on Vyuta has tried to posture at him, intimidate him or merely make his day unpleasant in many small ways, some instincts are hard to uproot.
He smiles.
"John it is, dearest," he says—his accent is more marked than Lev's, and he pronounces the name Dzhohn, as though over-correcting a tendency to pronounce it the Francophone way. Which—via trying to avoid the accent of the Ladsky nobility—is what he's going for, more or less. "I'm finding the place ... ah. Unusual, certainly. I've rarely been outside big cities, and certainly never for long. And this world is very different to where I was born."
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Anzu's relieved that John's not going for establishing anything but friendship with his handshake; even if he trusts Lev's evaluation of people, and even if his prominent status and reputation back home have ensured that for years now, nobody within the Talons or even on Vyuta has tried to posture at him, intimidate him or merely make his day unpleasant in many small ways, some instincts are hard to uproot.
He smiles.
"John it is, dearest," he says—his accent is more marked than Lev's, and he pronounces the name Dzhohn, as though over-correcting a tendency to pronounce it the Francophone way. Which—via trying to avoid the accent of the Ladsky nobility—is what he's going for, more or less. "I'm finding the place ... ah. Unusual, certainly. I've rarely been outside big cities, and certainly never for long. And this world is very different to where I was born."
"And thou? Is this place strange by thee, too?"