"You're looking freshly annoyed." He wasn't far away, but he was out of reach. She just wasn't looking very happy, and actually looked fairly cranky, and Silas knew Chareut women. Silas knew Claudia. Probably for the best that he just. Stay over here for the moment.

"I've found that wine soothes the temper far more readily than does liquor, you know." But then, that's his poison of choice. Might just be a matter of preference.