It had been wonderful, to come to a place and see someone for no other reason than that she wanted to. She wouldn’t forget the places Phobos had shown her or all that he’d told her, but she’d seen and listened with what was a slightly more selfish pleasure than she usually did. This was a break from everything she felt she had to do, and while she knew she’d have to drop it all if she was needed, she was determined to enjoy it with as little worry as she possibly could.
She had managed to do this very, very well, but on this particular day the drinks she kept finding in front of her or in her hands helped a great deal. She didn’t normally drink more than the occasional beer - but she was with Phobos. She’d be fine, of this Iris had no doubt, especially after her third drink or so, and that had been….well, some time before. It didn’t matter, since all that did was having a good time and talking to all the interesting people they kept running into.
Iris was currently recounting a story - a very good one, if she said so herself - and was doing fairly well considering she kept getting interrupted by a confused young man who wanted to know how her hair had managed to change colours since he’d first seen her walk in. She kept waving away the question….it wasn’t the point, after all…..but he was absolutely fixated, and she couldn’t seem to get any other sort of response out of him. When his hand reached out to actually touch her hair, Iris decided to give up and find someone more interesting.
She’d barely taken five steps away when she walked into someone and laughed. She reached out to steady the drinks she hadn’t meant to jostle in his hands. “There you are!” After making more or less certain that the drinks weren’t going to fall, Iris pulled Phobos down to sit beside her as she let herself collapse into a chair. “Is one of those for me? I hope so. You know, that boy, he….I told him I was Iris. Shouldn’t that explain enough? They can’t know everything. They can’t. Don’t they like your armour? Do they ask you why and how?”