[ Indeed, Quetzalcoatl doesn’t quite notice when Link settles down to listen to her story. She’s already partially through it, and enthusiastically, at that. But, this is a good place to settle all the same. For one, she’s a good storyteller, even if her tale is definitely on the fantastic side. And two, well. She has a plate similarly piled up to comical proportions. Servants need to eat a lot! ]

So, I told him! “Oh, no! That's not what I meant. We won't keep the bones, we just want to borrow them. The humans would be mortal, and would eventually return to you, just like how everything else is born and eventually dies, even the Sun itself. Only we Teteo live forever. You wouldn’t really lose anything, prometo, and in the meantime, your fame would grow.” That's—

[ It’s at this point that she realizes someone else has joined in to listen to her story, so she does pause to give Link a little wave. ]

Ah, another! My story is getting popular… [ She laughs, taking the moment to take a bite of her food before she nods towards him to give the background for what he’s missed. ] Mm, I’m telling the story of when I went to Mictlán with my twin Xolotl! We had to go rescue the bones of humanity from there, you know?

[ you know, normal story??? ]