A shuffle by the lip and Vanity turned her attention away from some bug looking for winter shelter to the face that popped over.
Great.
Of course, Black Hat had come to taunt her, but she could easily hop out and maul him, make it look like an accident of him getting too close. And not be reprimanded for it.
She smirked, wandering closer to him.
"Having a break." She really would have to leave, like tomorrow or something. She didn't really want to sit here with a friend nor have Black Hat nosey about.
She still didn't feel 100% though.
"Come to visit, I see?" Her tail coiled about her sitting haunches.
A coiled serpent.
"Life," she muttered. She didn't think he had, or ever would, take a break. As a Queen, she could take a break and let everyone else do the work for a while. All she had to do is organize, and she liked that.
She just wanted to sit, and she did.
Then he admitted he was worried, which made her laugh, almost hysterically, tipping her head back. She fished her broken laugh, coughing softly, but grinning.
"You lie, Black Hat. You are selfish I know. And you'd enjoy seeing me in madness, as much as I'd like seeing you." There was certainly no romance in their relationship, more like tentative trust. She didn't find him attractive either really. Her tail brushed the floor, more than happy to be talking to him. Perhaps he'd venture down, for whatever reason.
So he was suggesting that she was some pretentious brat that did fuck all for all of her life.
She had to fight her siblings for the position of Cerro Picacho del Diablo.
"No one is handed anything," and he should know that better than her. She climbed from halfway up the ladder, not the bottom.
"I was, and one day will be again. Sooner than anyone may think."
Her head tilted, looking at him intently. Waiting for his move.
Only her eyes showed her amusement from the sarcasm. She wanted to know why he thought of her as spoiled and unbothered.
Perhaps she'd have to entice him to relax one day.
"Mhm," she mused. Quiet and brooding now. But she didn't want him to leave just yet, but also didn't want to talk. Just the quiet company. Hopefully he'd stick around for a little bit whilst she brooded. If not, she wouldn't be in a rush to stop him. That was his choice.