She chuckled around her cigarette, taking another long drag. "Y'oughta be flattered," she said, and with her voice pitched the way it was it came out huskier than she would have preferred. "So much faith I didn' even hesitate." The corner of her mouth curved. "Y'know there was a N'sazz general useta set her tusks on fire? Like Blackbeard, sorta. 'Cept it wasn't t' scare her enemies or nothin', they couldn't see her. It was for, like. Morale? Got errybody pumped'r whatevs." She took a long drag of her cigarette as she considered how absolutely unnecessary that information was. A random piece of trivia fluff only tangentially related to the conversation, and certainly not in his wheelhouse of interests. She exhaled a very impressive cloud. "Feelin' inspired?" she asked, as if it were deliberate.
Smalltalk wasn't Kreska's strong suit. Her strong suit was… elsewhere. Somewhere. So she let him ramble about his kitchen woes for a bit, because she'd rather it be him than her doing the idiotic blabbering. "Definitely laser rats," she decided. "Generally do okay gettin' drunk without pretty things t' do it for me."
She snorted at his slip of the tongue. "Sounds better," she agreed, and it went unsaid that the former seemed more plausible to her than the latter. Not that intent would do her much good if things went sideways. It all ended the same.
What a weird situation this was. This was more conversation than she bothered having with the vast, vast majority of people who made the mistake of trying to talk to her. And those were people she could actually see. "Sounds more like bread soup t'me," she said, "which ain't quite as unappetizin', all told." This kept getting more complicated. She'd hoped to be getting a nap in by now. She was going to choose to blame Fate, for having the misfortune of being a face that she could put on the situation.
The natives looked far less pleasant in person. And like most things in person, far larger than her person. She'd much rather avoid issues before they happened, if that was an option. So she ducked and she cut, and it might have been exhaustion or it might have socialization-induced confusion that didn't have her asking where she was going before she went.
Smalltalk wasn't Kreska's strong suit. Her strong suit was… elsewhere. Somewhere. So she let him ramble about his kitchen woes for a bit, because she'd rather it be him than her doing the idiotic blabbering. "Definitely laser rats," she decided. "Generally do okay gettin' drunk without pretty things t' do it for me."
She snorted at his slip of the tongue. "Sounds better," she agreed, and it went unsaid that the former seemed more plausible to her than the latter. Not that intent would do her much good if things went sideways. It all ended the same.
What a weird situation this was. This was more conversation than she bothered having with the vast, vast majority of people who made the mistake of trying to talk to her. And those were people she could actually see. "Sounds more like bread soup t'me," she said, "which ain't quite as unappetizin', all told." This kept getting more complicated. She'd hoped to be getting a nap in by now. She was going to choose to blame Fate, for having the misfortune of being a face that she could put on the situation.
The natives looked far less pleasant in person. And like most things in person, far larger than her person. She'd much rather avoid issues before they happened, if that was an option. So she ducked and she cut, and it might have been exhaustion or it might have socialization-induced confusion that didn't have her asking where she was going before she went.
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