Swiftcurrent Creek snowfall

It was true - Soltero had not been given a magnificent impression of the pale woman from anyone, but he preferred to conclude his own judgements about others, rather than swallow what everyone else said; He knew all too well what the comments of others could do (how opinions could be twisted, not necessarily at the fault of anyone in particular), and he had never really been spectacular with words... so the smoky guard decided to put aside any hard feelings. He wanted to see for himself.

Black lips pulled into a small smile at her apology, shaking his head. "No problem - I'm Soltero..." Oh shit, she'd given her second name too, hadn't she? "Uh, Soltero Valento. It's nice to meet you." Unlike his own name, Aria's was smooth on the tongue, and he comitted the additional name to memory (he couldn't promise it'd stay there, though).