[Carpentry? There is definitely an edge of laughter there, though Kratos barely smiles on the outside. It's duller than it should be, given Kratos has something to relearn about emotions, but it's there. It does bear a relation to your taste for interior decorating, I suppose. I can only imagine what your house must have looked like.]

Hmh.

[Kratos pauses with the braid hardly begun. He's missing something. Not a braid -- ah. Ribbons. For a moment he's still, figuring out how he's meant to get some, before glancing toward Raine.

[Talking to explain that he needs ribbons, and why, and what he's doing, takes too long. He isn't sure of the words. Instead he sends a gentle, hesitant query to her mind, half words and half an image. Black and white, please?]