The Ardelay twins loiter in the palace for a few days, then fall back to the Chialto house, in plenty of time to receive any prompt reply to the correspondence Kiri sent out when they arrived in the city.
"Heh. I can do a little, too, but not well enough to ever chase anybody else out of a kitchen if they're willing to feed me."
—And then a look of extreme startlement crosses his face and he starts coughing into his hand.
Kiri looks at Sarelle, who will know better than she will if Ekador needs extra help with his airway.
"I am... astonished," he says, "astonished is the word - I am astonished by the number and variety of otherwise healthy bones that you have broken in your life."
Kiri waits to see if anyone needs her to confirm that it is really not a problem Loel has anymore or that he would really rather not get into it. She doesn't think that her talking too much can improve anything.
"I can... see that it is no longer a problem," he says. "It seems not to have been a problem for... several years. It troubles me that it was ever a problem. It troubles me further that—" He cuts himself off and shakes his head.
"Anyway," says Loel. "How are you liking Welce? I think it's pretty great here, except for the weird thing about clothes."