Vette bit her tongue when she realized that her knee-jerk reply was about to be, 'Yeah, but why me?' Knew by now that there wasn't an answer out there that would ever make sense to her anyway, and didn't want to make Sidon worry that he wasn't trying hard enough to make her feel wanted, when that wasn't the issue at all.

"Auspicious, huh? Well, that is fancy." She smiled and settled in, idly taking a bite of her fish. Chewed thoughtfully. Swallowed. "Auspicious."

And here she was just lucky.