But I think you got everything they knew. You're really used to this.
[He sounds faintly impressed, because he is in fact impressed (just in his own way) -- she's very mild-mannered, but it's not hard to see the steel behind the velvet once she gets down to business. They still have some work to do here, but there's a little more firmness in his step once he gets them back on the road.
Lenka speaks up thoughtfully again while they're on their way to the next stall--]
Should we show them the samples?
[The Palai probably haven't seen these plants before. But it couldn't hurt -- maybe they've run into something similar.]
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Date: 2017-09-05 12:43 am (UTC)[He sounds faintly impressed, because he is in fact impressed (just in his own way) -- she's very mild-mannered, but it's not hard to see the steel behind the velvet once she gets down to business. They still have some work to do here, but there's a little more firmness in his step once he gets them back on the road.
Lenka speaks up thoughtfully again while they're on their way to the next stall--]
Should we show them the samples?
[The Palai probably haven't seen these plants before. But it couldn't hurt -- maybe they've run into something similar.]