Dean should've known Tyana wasn't going to leave him alone after that.
Warm bread, roasted meat, something citrusy and sharp, and small plates that looked delicate and tasted like chefs were trained in the same way that Alamina trained soldiers.
Conversation moved around the table like a current, effortless and practiced, but not stiff. Otto asked Dean about school, as Trevor and Lucas usually did, and it made him realize how much he cared about Dean.
Minerva asked him whether he preferred tea or coffee with the air of a woman collecting data for future ambushes.
Ariana talked about Parliament like it was a living creature you had to outsmart, and Caroline listened more than she spoke, which made Dean more nervous than Tyana's smiling chaos.
