"I'm just teasing you, Dar," Quen said, nudging his leg under the table with hers. "You should try this," she added, pointing with her chopsticks to the sixth dish. "It's vinegary and chewy. I have no idea what it is."
She loved spicy food, but she didn't think everything needed to be spicy. She also liked food that was mouth-puckeringly sour or tooth-achingly sweet. She wasn't, however, a big fan of anything bitter. She could take or leave coffee, unless it was half milk and sweetened with a cup of sugar.
She listened to the polite questions between Darius and Theo. It would have never occurred to her to ask the specific occupational questions they did, but she was interested in the answers, especially since they spoke differently with each other than they did with her. Quen loved when the three of them were able to spend time together, but she sometimes suspected that the relationship between Darius and Theo was more complicated than even she knew.