Grouse Thicket An Irishman walks out of the bar

"That must have been a hell of a grudge - you are not anyone's obvious choice for princess Beautiful title at the moment," Apple replied with sympathy, though some people might interpret her words as mocking. She was not prone to kick those, who were already lying on the ground, but she did not mind prodding the wound to find out more about, why it had been placed there in the first place. 

She reasoned that by asking - "If this person is someone I should look out for as well?" - she got both an insight of, what kind of conflict it had been, without being accused of going in too personal matters. "I can stand my ground, of course, but at my age fighting kind of does not go well with the wise and elderly image," she added.