"Good," replied Ignis. He hadn't expected that they would be, but he hadn't wanted to leave it any longer. Of all the people that would be in attendance, they were the only ones that were merely representatives of someone else. It wouldn't do for them to arrive last, as if they were uninterested.
Although Gladio had a good point about not wanting to arrive first, either.
"Will you be playing dumb bodyguard again?" he asked, quietly, just before they entered the room. Gladio had been content to let Ignis do most of the schmoozing up to now, unless his charms had been needed against certain female residents.
Ignis had done his best in the run up to the meeting. Neliel's absence had allowed him to step in and take over. The quickest way to men's hearts was through their stomachs, whether that was the variety that went up and under the ribs or the more disarming sort that involved tantalising the tastebuds.
Forge alliances. Take note of who is there. Gather information. Ignis had done as much as he could prior to the meeting, and now he was going to have to do a lot of listening and watching. Who might be useful to Lucis? Who might be inclined to be useful to Lucis?
Inside the room he saw, many, many faces he knew. Hojo was a rare presence Ignis had seen only in passing, and L was yet rarer still, although his fondness for confections had brought him across Ignis's path. The Noah were already present. Sir Integra looked a mix of contemptuous and bored.
Ignis hadn't had many encounters with Even, or Ienzo, although he was aware of them. Kadaj had warmed since their initial meeting, a scared boy surrounded by sharks that was trying to survive without getting bitten.
He felt his breath catch at the sight of someone flanked by two bodyguards dressed in black. He'd heard of azi. They were an insult to the Lucian crown; slaves that were only permitted to wear black. With their strangely neutral expressions and attractive faces, and the expert attentiveness to their charge, there was little question of what the two must be. Azi were raised to serve, and trained only for those purposes.
That raised the very important question of who exactly they were accompanying. There weren't many in the upper tiers of Niflheim society that were known to keep azi. Even fewer of those were female.
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Date: 2019-02-11 11:28 pm (UTC)Although Gladio had a good point about not wanting to arrive first, either.
"Will you be playing dumb bodyguard again?" he asked, quietly, just before they entered the room. Gladio had been content to let Ignis do most of the schmoozing up to now, unless his charms had been needed against certain female residents.
Ignis had done his best in the run up to the meeting. Neliel's absence had allowed him to step in and take over. The quickest way to men's hearts was through their stomachs, whether that was the variety that went up and under the ribs or the more disarming sort that involved tantalising the tastebuds.
Forge alliances. Take note of who is there. Gather information. Ignis had done as much as he could prior to the meeting, and now he was going to have to do a lot of listening and watching. Who might be useful to Lucis? Who might be inclined to be useful to Lucis?
Inside the room he saw, many, many faces he knew. Hojo was a rare presence Ignis had seen only in passing, and L was yet rarer still, although his fondness for confections had brought him across Ignis's path. The Noah were already present. Sir Integra looked a mix of contemptuous and bored.
Ignis hadn't had many encounters with Even, or Ienzo, although he was aware of them. Kadaj had warmed since their initial meeting, a scared boy surrounded by sharks that was trying to survive without getting bitten.
He felt his breath catch at the sight of someone flanked by two bodyguards dressed in black. He'd heard of azi. They were an insult to the Lucian crown; slaves that were only permitted to wear black. With their strangely neutral expressions and attractive faces, and the expert attentiveness to their charge, there was little question of what the two must be. Azi were raised to serve, and trained only for those purposes.
That raised the very important question of who exactly they were accompanying. There weren't many in the upper tiers of Niflheim society that were known to keep azi. Even fewer of those were female.