[The moment Vic loses it, Avell does too. She lets him pull her to him, leaning hard against him while she tries not to laugh too loud.]

You would think I learned to be like that from you, but I started doing that when I was a teenager.

[Being a drifter in a world where your kind were persecuted meant being alone a lot. Avell had had to find her own ways to entertain herself.]

A little asshole. Now I am apparently a big asshole.