4. Fashion

Usually, the question he had in mind would be accompanied with the pronoun 'she', but on this case, it was accompanied with 'he'. So in other words, the question was 'How does he walk with those shoes?' And yes, by shoes he was referring to those black, high-heeled shoes that his associate was wearing. The young illusionist had told him so many times before that it was fashion. There were just so many things Horvath couldn't understand about this century that he was in. Technology and fashion are only a few of them.

As though by chance only, Drake had finally noticed how his elder was looking at his shoes. He knew just what it meant, but still, he asked the same obvious question, "You lookin' at my shoes?"

Horvath glanced up to Drake, then cast his gaze back to the shoes.

"How tall is that actually?" the ancient asked, nodding his head once on the shoes.

Glancing once on his feet that was placed on top of his desk, Drake answered with, "Three or four inches I think. You should try it."

The ancient sorcerer raised a hand and shook his head 'no'.

"Come on, it's fashion," said Drake. "My kind of fashion." At this, he simply smirked.

"And your kind of fashion includes painting your finger nails?" asked Horvath, a quirked brown on his forehead.

Raising one hand and looking at his black-painted nails, Drake simply said, "Yeah, why not? It looks good." He once again looked up to his elder. "Why don't you try yourself?" Yet again, Horvath shook his head.

"I like my nails the way they are," replied the ancient.

Drake shrugged. "Well, you are a fashionable bloke yourself in your own way." He briefly pointed a finger to refer to Horvath's clothes. "I'd be lying if I say those clothes doesn't look good on you. In fact, you look good in black."

Running down a hand to his jacket, Horvath glanced down on it before looking back to Drake. "Yes, well...Thank you, I suppose. And, I'd be lying if I say your fashion doesn't suit you well."

Drake only gave out a big, goofy smile and shined his shoes with the collar of his black, leather jacket.