Bramblepoint bleak

"oh," comes her response, and then to his comment, "what's funny?" she has a plummetting feeling it has something to do with her name, and realizes starkly that ashamed and cowering in a bush is not how to wants the rest of the encounter to be like. she doesn't have control over most of it, at least until her family catches up, but cowering—

"you don't have to be so rude." you're scary enough as it is. she hasn't known an occasion when telling someone not to be rude has worked, but she's not lost hope.