<blockquote>“Hello.”
Luke blinked down at the very tiny girl with dark purple hair sitting to his left. “Uh, hi,” he tried. Up until now the little girl had been eating her food and not all that interested in the state dinner going on around her, and Luke had been talking with an ambassador from a world he hadn’t quite caught the name of so it’d been a stressful forty minutes so far.
“Do you want help with the silverware?” the little girl asked. “Only you’re eating your salad with the dessert fork.”</blockquote>
