"The invitations you requested me to deliver were all received. What would you have me do now?"
In the bright, cool silence, a voice asked with a reverent tone. The one to whom it belonged knelt down without daring to raise his face. He dreaded catching even a glimpse of the one he served. He hadn't been allowed that in millennia.
No reply came for the inquiry that had been made for a while, but then...
"Be my company for now. That is all I need at the moment. It will be some time until you must leave my side, correct?" a voice that could have crawled out of the lips of a man or woman came, along with the soft ruffle noises that indicated lazy movements a few paces away.
"Why, of course," said the first voice in joyous tone.