I will smother you just to feel your touch

For the first time in a long time the sun was out and Jupiter, for one, was loving it. The volcano had made an awful mess of everything and the near constant ashfall had forced him to postpone his plans to travel and trade. Well, the trade part, anyway, as very little could keep him from wandering, but it was awful pain to pull a cart or a sled through the sludge. So for now he said to hell with all that. He'd go from place to place and see what the masses needed and then and only then would he bother with dragging his wares around.

The tall, pale and handsome man stretched out at the feet of a shaggy weeping willow drew Jupiter in like a moth to flame. He simply couldn't resist. His curiosity knew no bound and he was a sucker for pretty things. "Greetings, friend," he boomed with a broad grin as he approached. His demeanor was lazy and friendly and though that was basically him in a nutshell, in this instance it was weaponized and being used to hopefully disarm the stranger. Though his intentions weren't noble they weren't malicious either. In his experience friendly strangers got what they wanted more often than surly ones.

Jupiter stopped a respectful distance away and leveled his affable eyes on Aureus. One side of his mouth curled up in a self-deprecating smirk. "Don't supposed you'd be willing to help a poor traveler out, would ya?"