"This should be good, Perry." Alastor leaned over a bit closer to the man sitting beside him. This entire evening, and this Khakhua Togoga chap were all very amusing to him in all the most colonial ways. He saw the ambassador not as an equal-but-different but as a novelty. It was bloody ridiculous to him that the man was even here.
He glanced away from the front to admire Derrick's profile for a moment and he had to stop himself from biting his lip and staring. Perry's face was absolutely perfect. "You should do it. You should volunteer."