[The look he initially shoots Childe, and turns to Himeka when she speaks up, is disparaging - he's been fighting almost as long as he could walk, and training to command an army for almost as long, he understands the theory at work here, he just has never found much pleasure in its execution (his sense of taste as beige and muted as almost everything else) - but softens (as much as anything about Zenos can be said to be soft, at least) as he continues because he's not used to people trying to reach him on his level, only Commanding or Deferring. That Childe tries to frame things in a way he thinks will appeal to Zenos' very-specific interests is...
... this is... is this almost pleasant? Is this friendship? No, probably not, that would be ridiculous (they've not even tried to kill each other once, they cannot be friends) but it's... certainly something.
(A coincidence, probably. They are something like kindred spirits, after all, aren't they?)
So he listens, and picks one of the cheese-things, pulling it apart before consuming it; his appetite for food is not remotely the equal of his appetite for violence, it seems (but then, what is?) but while he sets the cupcake aside for now, still somewhat distrusting the Niceness (and Abel's weird fixation on Childe getting him to eat one), is not-happy-but-maybe-something-like-content to try the other parts of the meal.]
Fish does the same thing, I'm told, and wine the opposite?
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... this is... is this almost pleasant? Is this friendship? No, probably not, that would be ridiculous (they've not even tried to kill each other once, they cannot be friends) but it's... certainly something.
(A coincidence, probably. They are something like kindred spirits, after all, aren't they?)
So he listens, and picks one of the cheese-things, pulling it apart before consuming it; his appetite for food is not remotely the equal of his appetite for violence, it seems (but then, what is?) but while he sets the cupcake aside for now, still somewhat distrusting the Niceness (and Abel's weird fixation on Childe getting him to eat one), is not-happy-but-maybe-something-like-content to try the other parts of the meal.]
Fish does the same thing, I'm told, and wine the opposite?
[Speaking of Abel, he glances to Himeka again]
You continue to keep very strange company.