Welcome to Gaia! ::

Maybe they could survive each other long enough that it could be a thing to have? He nodded, understood that there could be no promise in it - no certainty in anything at all. He could've been hit by a bus tomorrow. She could've stabbed him in his sleep a week from now? Who knew what the future held.

Trips to Spain, trips into hell? It was all a fateful tossup of shrugs to the universe's casual need to displace all normalcy on a whim.

"That sounds like a recipe for success." tried for - and did that constitute as a pun? He tried for a smile, regardless, aimed darts at a board passably labeled as 'fun' and 'welcoming'. Just because they had to suffer each others company in the upcoming months, didn't necessarily mean they had to suffer in each others company?

The hard points could be tipped with softness, could be coated in neoprene and neon shaded foam for protection. Bladded things that they both were, but put away, tied down. Reed could accept this. Could try and show that he respected her...

If that failed? He could at least offer her dinner and the use of his kitchen to make a warm desert.

To give a nod that bordered on a bow. To offer hands to shake. Polite smiles that softened at the corners. More friendly now than shocked stun of when he'd met them before.

An adjustment still to be called Reynard outside of work. To...

"It was a pleasure, truly, and thank you for the hospitality, hah, and the luck. I promise..if all else fails, I have a very good life insurance policy?" not that he did, or that he'd use one if the did. Who was there to leave money to? His plants, the city, the negaverse?

Aimed a few more darts at humor, wondered if he should he have pretended he had family? Immediately dismissed the idea in order to search for a quick escape that didn't border on nervous fleeing.