The World of Rhune

When the boy next to the girl looked over at him--and wouldn't stop-- Cress began to freak out, and he ducked as low as he could go while still having a view of them. Never take your eyes off the enemy. Sharely had drilled that one, and it was automatic for himself now. The girl kept talking though like they were old friends, and exactly the same age. She even smiled slightly and bluffed off Cress' (he realized) very off guess about her being a 'Mrs.'. But the boy, he would not stop staring and sending chills down Cress' spine because he had no doubt the man could pummel him before he even reached Raven or Fritz. Cress felt better though when the lady, she's wearing pants and boots up past her knee, so is she mearly a girl? Cress wondered, and decided to ask later. He watched, though, as the girl raised the apple and shared with the muscled but pretty horse behind her. She hadn't needed to look.

And it seemed, she was nice enough not to want to hold his attention anymore. Unfortunately, the big boy besides her hadn't thought to do the same courtesy. He was still boring into Cress, so he labled the girl with the pink hair a different lady, and the boy a boy. Not a man, he didn't consider a man someone who looked under twenty, or if they didn't speak or do work. It was obvious this boy had done work, but he had to speak sometime. Cress wanted to shake his head. He was probably being, what was that word from Raven? Oh yeah, bias. Cress realized that his thinking had enveloped him, and he was supposed to have given a response of some sort, even a nod would do, but that hadn't happened in his stupor of dreaming. "I--uh, well, was just looking for the wife, miss, and I didn't know if you were her...and if you were that would be very, very, bad, and--uh..." He glanced down, wondering if he should just go see the horses, and the scurry behind a gate to one and spy out for the wife, or actually finish the converstation. But it had been finished, the different lady had done it herself! But then she had also required an answer...uh all this protocall just plain stinks!