[Even the prospect of the food cannot be ignored by Shadowlily, who oh so reluctantly uncurls herself from the lap of her favorite parent and jumps down in order to follow Kaveh to the kitchen. Alhaitham watches the feline for a bit, just to make sure she doesn't decide to take a detour to knock down another one of his fish figures, and once he's content he turns back to Heizou who is continuing on his... whatever he's doing. Being horribly despondent, clearly.
...for what it's worth, Alhaitham doesn't really make an attempt to egg him into playing chess—no point anyway if he isn't interested—so all he does it to pick up the book he brought along with him for this exact scenario and starts reading without another word. If he is at all bothered by the stiff silence that has come to settle in the room, he makes no show of it, simply doing nothing more besides continuing to read his book.]
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...for what it's worth, Alhaitham doesn't really make an attempt to egg him into playing chess—no point anyway if he isn't interested—so all he does it to pick up the book he brought along with him for this exact scenario and starts reading without another word. If he is at all bothered by the stiff silence that has come to settle in the room, he makes no show of it, simply doing nothing more besides continuing to read his book.]