[ yeah well!! put the guns away please this isn't a peep show!! good thing alisaie isn't all gross yet, so it's perfectly tolerable, even if she can't help but notice how cute prompta has become. but alisaie thinks girls are pretty all the time. it's meaningless. thank the gods she's somewhat demisexual, unlike a certain someone who may or may not get crushes at the drop of a hat. ]

Oh, they're, you know..

[ she waves one hand dismissively. ]

.. the same as always.

[ even when they were young, she found her family exhausting, always trying to fit her into boxes, fancy clothes, good manners. alphinaud was a little shit then, too, and the golden boy. not too much has changed. ]

How about you? I wouldn't have expected you to come to a place like this.

[ prompta had never much seemed interested in the aetheric arts, though the studium has certainly grown into far more than that, she supposes.. ]