Just when Vera Xavier thought Nathaniel Nathan was about to do something else, he handed her a tube of lip balm. "Saw this while I was on a mission. The weather in Veridia is dry, so I figured you could use it."
Vera Xavier was surprised he would give her lip balm. She praised him for it in her heart; he usually seemed so thoughtless, she hadn't expected him to notice such a detail.
But before she could even feel touched, he said, "Put some on next time you see me. I want to have a taste."
Vera Xavier: "..."
She immediately recalled the time in Crestfall when he had forced her to drink papaya soup. 'So he wasn't actually concerned about the dry weather or my lips chapping, but was just seeking a perk for himself?'
She snatched the lip balm from his hand, turned, and ran off toward her dorm.
