"Liquor—ah, ah, my favorite Gold Vodka! I heard it tastes even better with some dragon honey and rice candy made by Rice Raccoons. You've heard of them, right? Rice Raccoons—soft and fluffy, but with personalities even worse than cat lamps. All they think about every day is stealing rice home and pounding it into rice candy."
"..."
"Mhm, mhm, just put it over here. Oh, right—would you like to stay for a cup of oolong tea? Oolong tea made by the very adorable Cold-Heat Giant Fur Rabbits. Ah, ah, those giant fur rabbits, so fluffy! I want a hat made from their bunny ears."
"..."
Dormant Dragon Eileen was less a dormant dragon than a super chatterbox dragon.
In the brief time Jiang Han and Tang Wen spent carrying the liquor inside, Dragon Eileen had already told them no fewer than a thousand words' worth of things. She muttered and chattered endlessly, and with how pleasant her voice was, it came off as both bewitching and hilarious.
It was that lazy, drawling voice of hers.
Jiang Han tilted her head, watching Dragon Eileen blink as she leaned close, then nodded.
"If it isn't too much trouble?"
Though they were on the job, this was their last delivery destination, and they had spare time anyway. (Jiang Han had only just learned that they could overreport the time needed for each delivery, leaving themselves half an hour or even an hour to fish in muddy waters.) Besides, Eileen was a major client.
"No trouble, no trouble. I'm the one being too willful, wanting you to stay and chat with me. Ah, ah, it's been so long since I last met anyone that I've gotten a little out of control. But don't worry, I only mean that my urge to pour my heart