[((___jade___))>]

Nodding, Thayne grinned sheepishly. He had dipped his nose into one of two of those himself, though he had not found them so appealing. It was hard for him to relate to the characters in those books.

Again, Thayne nodded. Things seemed to be going fairly well so far, he only hoped it continued to go as such. The less they liked each other, the more miserable the rest of their lives would be. Neither of them wanted that, obviously, and as callused as it was to force your child into a marriage, Thayne guessed that their parents would rather them be happy too.

"Yeah, hopefully..." Thayne sighed, folding his arms over his chest nonchalantly. It occurred to him that their conversation now did not really mean much in the long run; this was just the basic, outer layer stuff. There was still plenty of room for tensions and differences...

After another short silence, Thayne let out a nervous chortle. "I'm sorry, I'm not really a very good conversationalist..."