[ abrideoffire ]

                “————-No offense has been made, trust when I say I have been called much…. cruder things in this life. Though no wrong in knowing what I am.”

       “And I’d say confident is definitely one of those things—- kha… leesi, was it?”

There’s a stroke of stubble and a cant of crown, with an escalating assumption.

       “But—- either I’m lost, or you’re not from around here… because I’ve never heard of ya’ before, ma'am.”