"That stingy bug ruined some of our time, but now we've been rid of it." Aelira stood akimbo with a grin. "It's almost night, so let's go to a place where we can eat and also watch some kind of show for entertainment."
"Sounds good. There is more than one such place here," Rudrean nodded.
…
They found the place with three taps on the resort card.
The Velvet Lantern Pavilion sat on a wide carved terrace above the lake tier, lit by hundreds of paper-thin floating lanterns that drifted between the tables at varying heights. The lanterns changed color slowly as the evening deepened, warm gold giving way to rose, then soft violet, then deep blue.
Each table was its own small island in the drifting light.
They were seated at a circular table at the edge, looking out over the lake. The staff brought the food in slow, deliberate courses, each dish arriving with a small narrative card explaining what the chef had been thinking when he made it.
