Phoenix Maplewood not from others

Okay - the bowing thing. It was starting to weird her out. "When you greet me, you dork," said Alya, helplessly amused by the theatrics, but honestly, getting a little annoyed. "This is a little excessive, don't you think?"

Alya was surprised to find she wasn't enjoying the grovelling. Normally grovelling was nice, but Alya got the feeling that Desdemona did this for just about everyone, and that took away a lot of the shine. "Look, I'm giving you permission - no, I'm insisting that you learn this, because you're going to get on everyone's nerves if you keep going the way you are. So give it a try, and if you really can't do it..." Alya tried to think of a follow-up. If she really couldn't do it, Alya would just avoid her, honestly. "Well, I guess that's that."