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The boy rambled on for a moment in what she thought was an attempt to respond to her. He snapped his jaws shut instead and squared up. He spoke with all the force he could muster, from what she could tell. Orson knew that laughing in this kid's face wasn't the best way to go about things. It did happen though, which she tried her hardest to suppress by pressing her lips together, letting only a gust of air be the sign that she was about to burst out laughing. Oh, I ain't lyin' to ya. I ain't got much of a reason to lie. But good on ya fer not trustin' strangers, I guess. She bared a snaggletoothed grin. As fer what I'm doin', I'm makin' conversation. That's it. 'm bored an' I sensed you in the wood, an' I came to talk wit' whatever'd let me talk wit' it.