"Allowing you to do it here is already beyond my quota of benevolence this year," Radia said calmly while sipping on his white wine.
Han Shin gasped at that, almost slamming the table loudly. "How can I use up that much already?"
"With that funding for that useless thing you begged me three months ago,"
"It's not useless!"
"It's useless if it doesn't bring progress."
"Ugh--!" the birthday boy leaned into his fiancee with a sob, clutching his chest for his broken heart. Reina patted the man gently, humming to soothe the healer, and Zein watched this charade with deadpan eyes.
Bassena leaned closer and whispered to the guide with a quiet chuckle. "Get used to it."
"I'm used to the both of you," Zein shrugged, staring instead at his plate that suddenly got filled with food when he wasn't looking.