Emee smiled. "I'm glad to hear your brother has a more welcoming side to him. I would love to be properly introduced to him another day, when he is in a better state."
"I would rather you didn't show me the Menagerie. May be your kind feels pride over capturing and depriving animals of being who they are, but I will not congratulate you for it." Emee did not seem to be angry or disappointed, and he only barely thought about it for a second. The moment Leesha had mentioned it he knew it was wrong, and he did not like it. Yet there was little he could do, and it was not worth saddening his mind with such thoughts. "You are such a nice person. If the rest of your people are like you, I'd be delighted to meet more of them. Perhaps tomorrow? As far as I can recall, mortals are not nocturnal, and are best met at day."
Emee became quiet as they approached the park, and the rest of the world became bleak to him. It had been too long since he had seen the flora of this world, but he still loved it. His immortal existence had not changed anything, but had rather strengthened his perspective on the longlived, patient trees. "The best bits of this world will never fade or change, not even in the Cold Lands," he said and raised a hand as if to stroke the trees even though they were out of his reach. "What kind of parties? Could I join sometime you think?" He remembered something along the lines of parties from a past life. Him among a grout of people, both humans of low and high social reputation and many different races, standing in darkness under the moon, dressed only in it's moonlight, dancing on a big flat rock fashioned to catch the attention of Leth on his stride over the nightsky, dancing just to entertain Leth on his lonely journey... At day they did not know each other and might very well be enemies, but at night they gathered under Leth to be one and many.
"No... I can't feel anything. I can see it. It is wonderful, a sight you do not see many other places. And then I see the moon. It gives me heat when I'm cold and chills me when I'm warm. That is a part of me, for I belong to Leth. I would not trade that away, even for being like the Vantha. I think it's true that you have a connection to it. You are the children of Aurora, and all children of nature carry a tiny bit of nature's own beauty with them. I have heard a similar light shines far to the south. Do you think you would feel the same connection to that, like you do to this?" Emee giggled, tempted to sit down on the cold snow and watch the lights in the sky.