— I saw this and felt like maybe trying to sketch it? I made him a bit more like Steiner’s armor and just splashed some colors from Vivi’s palette to experiment with. Hope you don’t mind!

Turning his gaze, he glanced in the direction of the watcher, careful to not make eye contact. Not yet. Instead, just a look and a brief scan to see if said watcher would look away—a very human thing to do.

And whatever it was this presence didn’t feel ‘human’. not quite.

He’d heard phrases like ‘Cosmo Canyon’ or ‘Advertising some play’ or ‘how does he keep his whites so white?’ (The last one amused him because the streets were indeed filthy and it was only magic that kept his robes clean).

No, he was aware of someone with /intent/ watching him. He paused.

Not in the romantic fashion of novels at least; it was a means to travel from one place to another.

“Are there many of you? Merchants, perhaps?”

“Are you hydrating properly?”

-- Thank you. I was happy how this turned out too! I'm glad you like it so much!

Finding the notion appealing to speak with a creature so friendly, he nodded.

“Then I suppose I would ask why you are so far away from the mountains. This doesn’t seem to be your home.”

He gestured to the very green hills around them.