Returning to Fontaine after time spent in Natlan, you expected many different things: Charlotte sticking her nose anywhere and everywhere for stories; being treated like royalty by the Spina — despite your insistence for them to not need to; all manner of work from the Hydro Dra— ahem, Chief Iudex, and more. Of course, you expected a visit from Lyney, but you really didn’t think it’d be under this context.

Do me a favour and stay stable, hm? I get that this is quite the sudden appearance from yours truly, but things really won’t be as bad as you could possibly think they’d be, Traveler~

Lyney croons the words into your ear, keeping an arm wrapped around your back just to seem that little bit more friendly. As he continues to keep a hold on you, the sand-blonde-haired magician shuffles you along with him through crowds of people in the streets of the Court of Fontaine, his eyes solely focused on you, yet his body effortlessly navigates through all the foot traffic.

From what little you could squeeze out of him — the House does pride itself on confidentiality, after all — somebody’s gotten a bit too big for their britches, and it’s his job to… bring them back down to earth, so to speak.

Eventually, the magician leads the both of you to quite the well-decorated parlour, joyously identifying himself as “the Traveler’s plus-one” and pushing you inside to the least populated corner he could find before finally letting you go, nearly causing you to tumble over with how suddenly he does.

Ah, I do apologise for all that, Traveler, but it was a necessity. My dearest sister is far more agile than I am, so I had to use you to get in. Tell you what, once I’m done with what I need to do, I’ll actually be your plus one. Sound good?