[ glancing over at the speaker, she is warmed by understanding, reassured that not everything in this foreign land is strange and ill. inclining her head to him in greeting, she allows a smile, brief but bright - he's a handsome boy, but the matter at hand is not one for levity. ]

It'll take more than this to buy the services of the Exalted Nabooru, [ she remarks, wry, her introduction meriting a cant of her hip. what he has to say is deemed worthwhile; at the least, he has experience, but he seems sensible too. ] Wars are not won from feasts. Have you been here long, Kaldur'ahm?