Ariadne didn't see the humor. But she knew that humanoid races were fond of farces. She'd seen traveling players visit Princess Amanda's court in her youth. Some of their shows were about love. More seemed to be about hitting each other over the head with stuffed trout.

And there was always falling down, for some reason.

She shook her head, still smiling all the same. "We'll work on the difference between 'banana' and 'storytelling,'" she assured him.