Ankyra Sound I am the mask you wear

Wow. Okay. Awkward. I mean, he had called her pal and all, but she hadn't really expected for him to be so gay that the very sight of a woman disgusted him so thoroughly that he pretended he couldn't speak her language. Hell, she hadn't expected him to think she was a guy at all. Things made a lot more sense now. Him claiming to be bodacious should have been obvious enough, but her black ears pitched sideways nonetheless and, flabbergasted, she could only say, "woooow."

After a beat she stepped fully out of the fronds in her full cinder-washed glory and stood opposite him, not once recognizing or even suspecting that they might be related. "Look, sorry," she said, "I uh, didn't realize you were into dudes. It's cool! It's uh... good for you!" And she smiled, and bit her lip, and tried to hide the fact that she really wasn't into the whole homosexuality thing because she knew how quickly that could go south.