Zel rolls his eyes as he stands up and says quietly, not quite under his breath, "You haven't seen harsh." One corner of his mouth quirks, "But you might if you keep implying Val's a bird."
He strides toward the bar then toward the kitchen to speak with a distinctly smug Ivonka about what she put into the brownies... but when she doesn't anything other than deny doing anything, he surprises her by asking for a few to take home. She obligingly slides four into a take-away box and Zel smiles at her then heads out of the pub to the coffee shop a few blocks away where he's become a regular.