Why ask when there's already food here? It'd be a shame to let it go to waste. (Some people come from worlds where food is a precious, Angelo!) It's just a snack for later.

(This will go well with a good meat and onion stew.)

Right, the way some people talked about this... I thought it would be like some of the formals back home. (Longwinded speeches and a lot of pretending to be good friends with people who'd rather you just disappeared. Here, the speech had been rather short and too the point and... well, the association had gone through such lengths to make sure they all came and enjoyed themselves, he didn't really get the impression they wanted him to conveniently go missing or anything? Hm.) I'll pick a banquet over class any day. We should have them more often.

... Maybe next Monday, even.

(Yes.)