"Oh... oh dear," Lily mumbled, her tone fading off into almost nothing as the two strangers gave her the spiel and Jin Feng was silently praying her suckerishness for these sort of things would over power her logic. He was confident earlier but now that it was the moment of truth he was here he was notably less so.
Lily's lips were just so slightly pursed in a dainty expression as she looked down and ruffled Jin Feng's hair like a blissfully oblivious mother figure and gave the tiger a light smack towards the doorway, left vacant by Richard, who had gone inside sometime during all this, no doubt with an annoyed expression at the whole thing.
"Go on inside. You should help the girls start dinner," She said in a quiet tone that Jin Feng met with a drawn out groan of annoyance, flopping forward at her light shove towards the doorway and scampering in, only to poke his head back around and wave to Xiulong with an earnest enthusiasm, hoping desperately this wouldn't be the last he saw of him.
"I hope he wasn't too much trouble," Lily said with a very slight flatness to her tone that easily could've been overlooked, as well as her expression shifting from painfully oblivious to just a very vague twinge something that rang out 'nice try'. Still, it didn't look like she was going to bother with any punishment or reprimand, since she cordially bowed her thanks to Po Zei and Xiulong for returning her tiger to her and quietly retreated inside the home.
Lily was no psychic, so she had no way of knowing what had transpired earlier, and luckily for Jin Feng, she was at least going to pretend to buy the con and let it be with no evidence it was untrue other than a vague suspicion she would eventually write off as paranoia.
And Po Zei and Xiulong were more believable than she'd like to admit.
Lily's lips were just so slightly pursed in a dainty expression as she looked down and ruffled Jin Feng's hair like a blissfully oblivious mother figure and gave the tiger a light smack towards the doorway, left vacant by Richard, who had gone inside sometime during all this, no doubt with an annoyed expression at the whole thing.
"Go on inside. You should help the girls start dinner," She said in a quiet tone that Jin Feng met with a drawn out groan of annoyance, flopping forward at her light shove towards the doorway and scampering in, only to poke his head back around and wave to Xiulong with an earnest enthusiasm, hoping desperately this wouldn't be the last he saw of him.
"I hope he wasn't too much trouble," Lily said with a very slight flatness to her tone that easily could've been overlooked, as well as her expression shifting from painfully oblivious to just a very vague twinge something that rang out 'nice try'. Still, it didn't look like she was going to bother with any punishment or reprimand, since she cordially bowed her thanks to Po Zei and Xiulong for returning her tiger to her and quietly retreated inside the home.
Lily was no psychic, so she had no way of knowing what had transpired earlier, and luckily for Jin Feng, she was at least going to pretend to buy the con and let it be with no evidence it was untrue other than a vague suspicion she would eventually write off as paranoia.
And Po Zei and Xiulong were more believable than she'd like to admit.
