[OOC: That's fine! He won't remember the last TDM because I'm pulling him fresh, but Navia is welcome to if she's keeping continuity from events prior!]

[There's an immediate relief to being acknowledged, which he knows is strange and uncomfortable and unlike him, but where most of the time his loneliness is something he's able to rationalize or suppress, this time it's incessant and only the promise of human contact seems to do. He's not about to squander it now that he's got it, however fleetingly, and he sips his drink again to keep his throat wet in the hopes of an extended conversation.]

Well. Maybe "festive" is stretching it.

[And "colorful" is a nice way of putting it, but still. It's not as though it couldn't be a lot worse.]

I'd still take it over being chased around the beach by bird-headed lifeguards, though.