"There's a reason I gave him gloves for his birthday," Nida points out. And he's even got a new pair too, tucked away in his room. Saw them in the storage closet with all the spare clothes and the like and brought a pair home for his own use. Also useful on patrols of course.

Oh boy did they ever talk. Nida's eyes even now cast about for Billy but didn't find him. No doubt off to the kitchen like he'd said to thank Seifer for the cooking work. Hopefully that wasn't going to bite him in the ass given what he'd admitted to Seifer earlier that evening.

"I'm still lame, Rinoa. I don't even begin to believe anything else. But I am thinking about making a second set of those strange 'Jenga' blocks. Pretty interesting idea actually. And apparently we need to figure out how to replicate an Earth game called Twister, because according to Billy, I'd be the best at it."