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Diluc taps his pen thoughtfully on the piece of paper before him. It was a rough layout of where tables would be inside the main area of the mansion, and it was purely a matter of assigning seating to various invited personnel. A few tables had been sorted, including Diluc's own table. There were six to a table, and so Yunel had tried to spread everyone out equally over the layout.
“So, Master Diluc,” Yunel began, tapping various parts of the rough layout with his pen as he spoke, and as Jean and Kaeya took in the contents of the map in their own time. “Considering yourself and a few others such as Acting Grand Master Jean, Alice and few others will be performing speeches, I've set your seating to be the centre front, allowing easy access to the platform for addresses and such,” he explained, tapping his pen on the middle table in the front row of the seating plan. Diluc nodded, understanding the arrangements. Jean looked on calmly as Kaeya, meanwhile, whilst looking over the table plans, had noticed an anomaly.
“Hey, why aren't I on that table?” He asked, pointing to Diluc and Jean's table where all the ‘important’ people were sitting. Diluc sighed.
“Kaeya, we've talked about this- you're not giving a speech this year” Diluc explained for what must've been the seventh time that week. Kaeya gasped in mock offence.
“And why not? Aren't I important too?” He asked in a tone that suggested he was asking purely to be a pain in the ass, as usual.
“You know why” Diluc replied simply, giving Kaeya an ever so slightly tone of warning- not like it ever worked, of course. Kaeya shrugged, acting as if he hadn't gotten totally blind drunk and had to stumble his way through his speech and then run outside when nobody was looking afterwards to throw up. Jean stifled a laugh at the memory, covering her mouth and coughing lightly to cover her laugh, much to Diluc's enjoyment(not). Kaeya gave his brother a playful jab with his finger, to which Diluc didn't react, as usual.
“Come on, I still deserve to sit with the important folks, don't I?” He asked playfully, and Diluc brought a hand to his forehead in annoyance- and expectation. This is Kaeya for you.
“You'll be sitting two tables over with Rosalia and a few others” He began.
“Oh so Grand Master Jean gets to sit with Master Diluc but not the Cavalry Captain?” Kaeya asked with a mischievous grin, no doubt winking under the eyepatch. Jean pretended to not have heard and continued reading over the seating plans as Diluc sighed.
“First, Acting Grand Master is a much higher title than Cavalry Captain,” He began, and Kaeya was about to pull out another snarky remark when he was interrupted once again by his brother. “Alice will be sitting with me and Jean, but I'm assuming Klee will want to sit with you, so we've left a spare seat open on your table for her” He finishes, and Kaeya immediately throws his sass out the window, smiling at the mention of Klee wanting to sit with him. He adored the little girl- and, speaking honestly, Klee was much closer to Kaeya than she was to her own mother, so this plan made a lot of sense.
Kaeya leaned back in his seat. “Very well then, I guess I can't complain if Klee is keeping me company” He decides, actively quitting his previous endeavours to mess with Diluc.