"Wonderful. My work is serious, but I am rarely so. Seriousness is to be avoided unless it is necessary. Ah, but it's lovely to hear a voice like yours!"
As he smiles back, Sable appears with their drinks and hands them over. "If you two need anything else, I'm inside, or ask Judah. He'll be the guy just inside those hedges who looks like a Jewish cowboy trying to plug a string of fairy lights into his head." She pauses just a moment to give Fiona a brief look-over, then flashes a grin at Riordan and pops back inside.
"Apparently," Riordan explains, "her business partner is some sort of wizard who thinks he can make magic and electricity work together. I haven't met him. He runs the repair shop down the block. Evidently that tunnel in the shrubbery leads to it, among other places. She's got quite a little rabbit warren set up here. But where were we? A toast, my dear lady. To home, may we ever see it again." He raises his glass to her.