Gyrfalcon's Keep a little bit of news you heard around the barrio [m]

Well, that was kind of a buzzkill, and suddenly Chip wondered if he was going to kill the mood entirely. She didn't like so much smalltalk before the deed, and now that she knew there were looser folks out here, why would she waste her time on those that took longer? Maybe he was good for something else. (Haha, yeah right. Boys were only good for sex.) Then again, maybe he wouldn't give her too much more smalltalk.

"Elsewhere," she replied simply with a single wag of her tail. His name more or less went in one ear and out the other. "How 'bout you?" she asked, and she regretted the question as soon as she spoke it. She didn't really care to know, but it was the natural flow of the conversation. "You know what, maybe we shouldn't get too personal," she suggested, and took a step toward him to lick his cheek (should he allow her to).