by channe » Thu Aug 09, 2012 3:37 am
"You can't beat me," she says. "Glenn can't beat me. Renea can't beat me. Nobody can beat me." She grins at him and walks forward a little, turning around, walking backwards, her finger out pointing at him once more. And she says Aleksei has a ego problem? And then she listens to him, tilting her head to one side, shrugging.
"You have to understand that, in general, outsiders wi' skills an' education aren't all that common," she says. "They get lapped up by whatever poor sod has the unfortunate privelige of bein' the Guv and thrown into defense o' our fair land. About half of the time, they turn out to get kidnapped by the drow, or changed, or whatever. You'll understand why we just -- don't -- trust as much as you'd like us to."