[ Focused in on the dark of the window, she wasn't really expecting a response, let alone really wanting to show off any more skin of her own in any capacity, but the voice beside her has her jolting around a hair too quickly. And she's greeted with a fellow that seems to be just on the cusp of drowning in an overly-lavish fashion... ]
[ Surprising, maybe, but given the week she's had so far, she's rapidly running out of energy to be startled (a font she had once thought to be boundless). It does catch up to her though, mid paltry-polite laugh for his joke, not at the intricacy of the beadwork, but at the odd familiarity of his next words. ]
Oh— No kidding, [ she breathes, eyes suddenly too wide as she pats her pockets, shifting her phone from back to front and reassuring herself with the clink of her handful of silvers through her jeans. Gestures of security, but completely automatic, focus instead zeroed in on— ] Sorry, Times Square as in... You know, New York City?
[ It sounds like the world's stupidest clarification to make once it rolls off her tongue, but (—the accent) at this point, anything recognizable has become stranger to hear than all the alien nonsense. ]
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[ Surprising, maybe, but given the week she's had so far, she's rapidly running out of energy to be startled (a font she had once thought to be boundless). It does catch up to her though, mid paltry-polite laugh for his joke, not at the intricacy of the beadwork, but at the odd familiarity of his next words. ]
Oh— No kidding, [ she breathes, eyes suddenly too wide as she pats her pockets, shifting her phone from back to front and reassuring herself with the clink of her handful of silvers through her jeans. Gestures of security, but completely automatic, focus instead zeroed in on— ] Sorry, Times Square as in... You know, New York City?
[ It sounds like the world's stupidest clarification to make once it rolls off her tongue, but (—the accent) at this point, anything recognizable has become stranger to hear than all the alien nonsense. ]