"I appreciate the offer, but I'll have to decline. Iskandar and Waver are here, and I can't leave them," he shook his head. He left on missions, sure, but he always returned home to them, to their home here where there were no stars to light the sky. He would never be used to it, true, but he managed so long as he had Waver and Iskandar.

"You're welcome at our home any time you're here," he counter offered to her. "We usually have something brewing, which is always a nice change from travel food." He wrinkled his nose, rubbing at his jaw as he imagined having to eat more that dried meat and bread whose nutritional value was questionable at best.