Gaja's bright smile is met with a smaller, softer one from Nam, though it may well be just as bright at the phoenix's, for all of the feelings behind it. Feelings that only the bird would recognize. Feelings that no one else gets to see. It's not the sort of fake, polite smile that he might preset to someone else, it's genuine and heartfelt. It's a soft smile meant only for a certain fiery bird.

Nam doesn't expression his emotions quite as brightly as his avian rival, but he feels them just as deeply.

Once more he raises his hand to touch that beautiful necklace that encircles his delicate throat and lays heavy against his chest, then he looks up at the phoenix and shakes his head. "For this visit, you may consider the river spirit already appeased." Though Nam feels that way about every visit from his bird. He wants nothing more than Gaja's company and needs no offerings from him. Gaja doesn't come looking for blessings or gifts (though Nam gives them when he can), he just comes to spend time with an old, lonely river spirit. If Gaja never brought him anything again, Nam would be just as glad to see him, and just as welcoming.

Though he loves and cherishes each and every thing that Gaja brings to him, he doesn't need any of it. He only needs his phoenix.