"Shut up. Let me enjoy the fire for a second without your poor attempts at bullying," Nila said.
Oliver settled on the other side of the fire, keeping his distance. He watched Nila's expression carefully from wherever he stood. Though he smiled, and he had to say that he was enjoying himself, in truth he was wary, for he didn't understand at all the coldness that she'd shown him, nor the fear and he did all he could to dance away from it.
"Is there nothing that you have to attend to today?" Nila said.
"I suppose I could find something…" Oliver said. "But it seems a fruitless bit of searching. I'd only be getting in everyone else's way. What about you?"
"Hah, you're already the kind of boss that leaves everything to his employees. Greeves joked to me year ago, that if you ever ran a business, that was exactly what you would be."
