Felix will wait politely and wearing the clothes they provided him (since it was a multiple-day journey and all). And he fidgets just a little.

Naoh is also somewhat subdued. He had hoped to see another world, sure, but no one said anything about going to a palace.

After ten minutes they're still waiting.

Felix is hardly going to be impatient now. At minimum he and Kaede can go over rules of etiquette.

It takes another twelve minutes but then a tall man in a white cloak fastened around a white linen shirt and white trousers, lined with silver and gold thread in complicated patterns, strides into the room. His face is also covered with glowing tattoos, but they're all silver and gold and pink unlike the blue ones phe Bez had. Kaede gets up immediately and bows the specific way they were taught to bow, with both hands clasped in front of them. Naoh does the same.

"May Bezana shine your afternoons!" the man declares, beaming.

"And yours," Kaede and Naoh reply.

"And yours," Felix replies following the instructions perfectly.

"I am called Jintes phe Bez," he introduces. "It is a pleasure to meet you."

"I-I am N-Naoh am M-M-Melo," Naoh introduces himself.

"I am Kaede," she says.

"No relations?" phe Bez asks wryly.

"None worth mentioning."

"I am Felix Vaesteri."

"So you are our alien visitor. The Kingdoms of Bezanab and I, the High Consul, do bid you our humblest welcome," he says, and bows even more deeply than they did.

Felix bows back in the specific way to reply to this specific bow (and to think he was wary of learning how to use ten different kinds of forks when the etiquette lessons started).

"It's my honor to be allowed passage and to be granted hospitality," Felix says formally.

"Not at all, not at all, the honour is ours," he says, straightening up again and dropping into informality. "Baleo had good things to say about you, and lady Vamm was the Teinnaban equivalent of brimming with excitement about your new kind of magic. They couldn't stop talking."

"I am glad to hear," Felix says with a smile that is more sincere and much better than the previous one.

"And these two...?" he asks, looking at Kaede and Naoh.

"She is my girlfriend. And he is from the Explorers' Guild."

He frowns. "So why is he here?"

"Well, he came with the delegation to investigate the new world, except the portal collapsed. So, he helped the delegation test our claims that sorcery is real and works in this world."

He peers at Naoh, who shrinks under his gaze. "Hm." He looks at Kaede again. "And she's your girlfriend. Native. How peculiar."

"It is given how extremely blessed I feel for having met her," Felix says sounding very sincere about it.

He straightens up again. "Good to hear. Well! We'll get you to your rooms and then we'll have dinner, what say you?"

"Sounds perfect and thank you so much for your hospitality."

"Great!" He claps his hands together and turns around, striding away from the room. Kaede and Naoh follow quickly.

I think he's a bit strange.

In what sense? I don't have much of a baseline to compare the people of your world.

Just... eccentric.

He leads them through decorated hallways with huge paintings, enormous leisure rooms, extremely pretty stairs, and two dining rooms, before he reaches a corridor that has several doors and apparently houses the "guests of honour."

"Now, hmm..." he says, stopping suddenly and peering at them again. "Do you two room together?"

"Yes, if it isn't imposing too much."

"Not at all, not at all." He looks around at the many doors, picks one apparently at random, and leads them to it. "Here you go!" he says, opening the door to reveal the most gorgeous suite any of them has ever seen in their life. The bed frame and post are exquisitely carved out of wood with asymmetrical and complementary details, there is a marble table more like a sculpture, a stunning water fountain they can drink from, a beautiful fireplace inlaid with gold, breathtaking paintings of various landscapes—the whole deal.

"Oh," is all Felix can say. This place is gorgeous.