[What an experience it is watching Nico try to salvage this. Her surprise stopping her train of thought short, each sentence pivoting in a different direction, hopeful gestures trying to mend what her fumbling words couldn't.]
[Not that there was anything to mend. Hubert was perhaps a little taken aback, but that was far from offense. No, he couldn't help but watch on fondly, appreciating her earnestness, in both her opinions and her mistakes. It's refreshing to not have to guess someone's hidden intentions.]
[A low sound comes from Hubert; it's too dampened and melancholy to be his usual smooth chuckle, but... it is a laugh, or a ghost of one that was close enough. The first one in a while.]
There is no harm in it. Do not trouble yourself.
[Hubert guides them to the side towards his house; it's one clearly designed with this world's vampires in mind, given that there were no windows on the second floor. He unlocks the door and gestures her in to a sitting room on the left, a banked fire in the hearth.]
no subject
[Not that there was anything to mend. Hubert was perhaps a little taken aback, but that was far from offense. No, he couldn't help but watch on fondly, appreciating her earnestness, in both her opinions and her mistakes. It's refreshing to not have to guess someone's hidden intentions.]
[A low sound comes from Hubert; it's too dampened and melancholy to be his usual smooth chuckle, but... it is a laugh, or a ghost of one that was close enough. The first one in a while.]
There is no harm in it. Do not trouble yourself.
[Hubert guides them to the side towards his house; it's one clearly designed with this world's vampires in mind, given that there were no windows on the second floor. He unlocks the door and gestures her in to a sitting room on the left, a banked fire in the hearth.]
Dare I ask your age, following that assessment?