"I v-very much d-doubt that Plum. You're too cute to be c-clumsy."

Plum laughed a bit, shaking her head. "It's all a facade, Benjy. Don't believe everything you see." She gave him a little wink and took a sip of the lemonade, honestly beginning to enjoy herself a bit, now that the wave of whatever-that-had-been was safely behind her.

"I work with Leath. And I live in Keswick. River works with Joshua though. You work with Josh too right?"

The receptionist made a face, twisting her mouth, sticking out her tongue and squinting one eye. "Let's not talk about him," she said with a bit of a snort, brown eyes darting about in an effort to spot the infamous Cloud. "I don't work with him by choice. The man would be entirely lost without me, and yet he's too self-absorbed to know it."

She paused.

"I'm really not one of those people who are miserable," she said with an earnest look. "I promise you, all right? Don't think that, please?"