Seeing that the entire menu had been covered for Quen's benefit, Peony ordered the honey bun for herself - honey was occasionally said to help with colds - and asked for her tea to be topped off.
"I will certainly do that," she said to Aspel. "I may be inadvertently sending some business your way - some of my colleagues were quite impressed with your work." Not that she assumed Aspel would mind it in the least.
To Quen, she said, "I had noticed you on the network more often than usual recently. It was good of Darius to think of it. You're enjoying yourself, I take it?" She didn't use the network often, except for administrative tasks, but she knew it was all the rage with the younger mages.