Duck Lake reality is a lovely place.

He confirmed her suspicions, then posed a mild question of his own. Turq felt a flicker of irritation at his probing, then remembered that she'd asked him first. "Yeah, I guess," she said, unwilling to give away anything else. Her tail twitched and she shifted her weight from one stockinged paw to the other.

Unwilling to make small talk, Turquoise opted for another track. "So, your name is Lake and you apparently like lakes," she said in an observational tone that bordered on snobbish. "Does that make you a narcissist? That would be like if I went around bedazzling myself with turquoise stones," she said with a slight sneer, forgetting that she hadn't given her full name until just now.