[Boober's shudder and grumble is heartening to Riz. Of course, Boober could just be reacting to the idea of kissing middle-aged men, which would be extremely valid, but Riz is going to allow himself to believe that the reaction is to kissing in general. It would be nice to have another friend, other than Adaine, who doesn't care about that sort of thing.]

Right? I love my friends but they are really easy to distract. [Riz shakes his head.] One of us got kidnapped and-- it's not that they don't care, and we couldn't immediately go and save her, but... they were still so eager to mess with the weird elves and I don't get how they could just relax like that.

[Riz can barely understand how people can relax in general, but at that time? He'd been on tenterhooks the whole night.]