Cerulean Cape We wake up with guilt in our bones

He did neither.  Rather than boast, he turned the phrase around, paying her a pretty compliment and continuing to prove himself an interesting talker at the very least.  She was digging it. But she wasn't about to straight up tell his cocky, smooth-talking ass that.

"That so?"  He'd scooted closer, and she took the opportunity to take a few steps sideways, circling a bit as if realllyy appraising the cargo here.  "Girl can't be too careful these days, what with all the ruffians roaming about.  But you wouldn't know a thing about that, would you?"  She pegged him a rogue straight off, from both manner and way of speech, and it was this that enticed her.  She didn't have a lot of patience for sap.