Everyone in the room froze. Every. Single. Person!
The vampire froze. The elf froze. Heck, even Pearl herself froze, feeling a mix of confusion, endearment and amusement as she saw the look of sheer anger and panic in River's eyes! He seemed to really think the vampire was trying to seduce her!
Lex, on the other hand, successfully managed to keep himself from facepalming. It was fair to say that between the two of them, Pearl was the one with the knack for political mouvering, while River was the friendly charismatic one more suited to networking and making connections.
When united together, both of those things could yield incredible results. On their own, however, both of them were useless. What was the point of political knowhow if she didn't actually have connections, and what was the point of those connections if River didn't know how to use them?
