Vanya, Verya,... had the world silently started to resort to a regular expression consisting of a 'V' at the beginning, an 'ya' at the end and two random alphanumeric symbols in the middle in order to find names for incarnate disappointment ? An-Hasst's will to clean up the aftermath of this swamp excursion had been borderline before, but now he refused to do it at all. It didn't bother him much - the stuff would dry and the solid remains detach by themselves, it would just be a matter of time and if there'd be another source of dirt in their way he'd be the only one not having wasted time.

The Skayleigh closed his eyelids  - so he could roll his eyeballs behind them without anyong noticing. Settionne, again, deployed his bewildering array of softened up, well chosen words in order to make a first impression. The question was if it would work this time. According to An-Hasst's internal opinion it would not. Verya, judging by the woman's tone, appeared to be quite used to the military and thereby would likely be more interested in hard facts than anything else.

However the giant didn't get very far with his attempt to finally hatch out some sort of retaliation plan. He was considering 'accidentally' stepping onto the man's foot when Alice, without knowing, saved it from this rather crushing experience by doing something An-Hasst instantaneously considered to be even more... intriguing. [color=yellow]"I'd like to apologize for these words."[/color] he spoke up, speculating that him being a Skayleigh could net him some sort of bonus because it partially made him a wood elf himself. Of course it could be that the opposite thing would happen, but since when did An-Hasst have talent for excellent manners ?

Slowly he stepped closer towards Alice, approaching her from the right and from behind. [color=yellow]"Why are you referring to your 'old dormitory' ? Was it a rotten collection of beddings stenched with a plethora of body fluids and an already self-compressing layer of dead flies on the window ledges ? Or did your memory just suffer a momentary glitch that made you forget about this swamp we just came from before making this comparison ?"[/color] His voice was enhanced with enough sarcasm to indicate that he wasn't entirely serious about what he was saying.