The Sentinels The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

It was clear from the very beginning that Renoir was not going to pour his heart out to Osprey and she did not blame him - she was almost a stranger to him. Yet the lame excuse about the beauty of the flowers made her arch her eyebrows and look at the fellow quizzically. Really?

She weighed out her options then - she could press further and eventually find out the true reason, talk about flowers or her own problems or... she could try to make a joke out of it. Since the first two were not interesting and the third subject was empty at the moment, she went at the fourth. "Were you hit by the moonlight? People say that it is one of the strongest magic - makes even reasonable people do foolish things."