Winnie colored slightly, the freckles on her nose standing out in contrast. Accusing someone!!! UGH. What a way to make a first impression!! Being a massive idiot.

"Excuse me, please, then," Winnie replied. "It's just that-" That Willie's eyes are sometimes like lasers and sometimes like flashlights and you can't always tell who or what he is intent on destroying. "That I didn't know the whole situation. I beg your pardon, Jake, if I may call you so. I'm Winnie."

Her mouth opened in a round O at the culprit. At the one who was REALLY goading...pretty much everyone, it looked like.

"You're bang out of order!" she said in surprise. "Why would you deck-wait, what's 'deck'?" She pulled out a small notebook from her pocket. Must learn slang terms. "Is it a verb?"

She turned to the girl beside her AND THE KITTEN!! "Are you alright? You do look a little uncomfortable." She hushed her voice. "And you ought to be because this is a madhouse."


She said all this keeping one grey eye on Willie's heaving flanks.