Ariadne smiled up at the boy when he seemed to take her joke seriously. She missed having a younger kid around, on some level. Then again, it may have been Daniel's teenage moods that had her missing the excitable young lad. Declarations of how something was "balls" was a stark contrast to the sprog who had said he was her friend the first time they had talked. He wasn't a bad kid (and he was still a kid,) but it was still tiring at times.
"Nothing to be sorry about." She shifted the sketchpad around completely to show a drawing of a Betta fish. Her focus was on the tail, playing with colors. "And there's -" She swapped the page to another to show a drawing of the front of a house. "They're watercolor pencils, so the look of the drawings will change when I apply water. More like paint."
"I'm Ariadne. What's your name?" Ariadne hadn't been paying the most attention to the network, as of late.