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Yani was curious to know more about this arrangement of Keirs, so he nodded about continuing it over dinner and took the offered hand. He'd need help here for sure, since he'd never been here before.

"Thank you," he said politely to the driver, nodding his head a bit that he understood that he would be waiting for them when they were done.

Yani did as she said, feeling way better about this than ever. Maybe it was the absense of Silver and Sati, who he thought made this out to be a really big deal...this was actually kind of fun!

"Hmmm it's pretty quiet here. I take it this is a pretty well hidden place...it'd have to be with the name The Retreat..."

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"Well.. Its a place for 'different' people like us. People in here won't stop and stare. So we're pretty much grand." Keir smiled and sniffed, following the man into the tux, up to the lady with the guestbook.

The woman smiled. "Oh! I remember now! Follow me! Follow me! You have the balcony table!" She went down the stairs, leading the way briskly through the resturant out onto a terrace that overlooked the ocean, with a small table set for two in the middle. "Here we are M'lord. M'lady." She pulled out the seats for the pair of them, then gave a small bow to each. "The Waiter shall be along in a few moments with the menus, and to take your orders for drinks. Everything has been settled in advance, so don't worry about a thing." With that said, she bustled back inside with a kind of brisk energy that seemed to envelope all things small.

Yani took a seat as well and carefully let his hands drift over the settings to help him familiarize their positions for later on. He was growing more nervous too, as the settings became more intimate.

"You know what...I don't even want to think of this as a date," he said after a pause, rubbing his forehead. "Because if I do, then I get all nervous and stuff and it shouldn't be like that...Too much pressure...." He would have glanced up at her if he had that ability, so instead he interlaced his fingers on the table's edge.

"It might make you feel better to think of it as just a fancy dinner....? I mean, don't get me wrong, I....ah. Well, nevermind." He hoped she didn't get offended that he was now trying to not think of it as a date because labelling it that way made things so much harder.

"Nothing," he answered, also grinning. "It's nothing." He didn't feel like he needed to add what he was going to say since Keir was apparently going to go along with his line of thinking and she didn't get offended that he didn't want to think of this whole escapade as a date.

"Now, fancy dinners can't start unless the diners know what they want...drinks first of all."

Yani's face flickered into an expression of mischief as he "read" the menu, hmming to himself. After a long though, he grinned.

"Fancy dinners usually have wine...." he said with a grin. He'd never, EVER drank a drop of alcohol before...but he mom wasn't here and this just seemed like the right thing to have with a dinner like this. "Do you like wine?"

Yani couldn't see her make a face so he hmmed thoughtfully before saying to the waiter "Bring us a bottle of chardonnay please. Any vintage will do." He didn't know much about wines, so he figured the people there would know the best one to pick.

To Keir, he again grinned. "I've never had anything like it before...but I've heard wine is a lot more tame than hard liquor or beer. Not that I know what either of those taste like."