[Zenos yae Galvus hadn't entirely wasted his time as regent of Doma. He'd gotten to know the environs a little, enough to familiarize himself with the namazu and the monkeys and the various hot springs. Enough, even, that he has a favorite. A favorite that he has missed, in all of the striving and struggling. He has won his body back and all is chaos in Garlemald... so why not pause a moment or two while plans finish coming together?
Presuming that Irhya is at all alert and attentive, she is likely to hear heavy footsteps along the narrow stone path. And then the clatter and clank of armor, growing ever closer. It is enough time to not be particularly surprised about having company... but, instead, surprised about who that company is.
Zenos crests the rise, takes one step down towards the spring, and then halts sharply. There is someone here! And oh, what a someone it is.]
...do my eyes deceive me?
[It is a bit fortunately coincidental, if he were to be honest with himself... but he's not going to. It is just the person he has been longing to see all this while.
Isn't it? Hm, perhaps he should attack her, to be sure...]
It's always a good time for surprising things in hot springs
Presuming that Irhya is at all alert and attentive, she is likely to hear heavy footsteps along the narrow stone path. And then the clatter and clank of armor, growing ever closer. It is enough time to not be particularly surprised about having company... but, instead, surprised about who that company is.
Zenos crests the rise, takes one step down towards the spring, and then halts sharply. There is someone here! And oh, what a someone it is.]
...do my eyes deceive me?
[It is a bit fortunately coincidental, if he were to be honest with himself... but he's not going to. It is just the person he has been longing to see all this while.
Isn't it? Hm, perhaps he should attack her, to be sure...]