[ What gets Mouse's face to effectively 'shut up' isn't the fact that she's ragging on his name, but the question of whether or not he's got a proper one. No one in the desert ever bothered to ask, no one except Wither and Mouse had given him the finger when he did.
It feels — chastising in the way everything else she's said so far hasn't been. Mouse's head dips low and his shoulders pull up, making him look sulky. He almost sounds defensive when he tells her: ]
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It feels — chastising in the way everything else she's said so far hasn't been. Mouse's head dips low and his shoulders pull up, making him look sulky. He almost sounds defensive when he tells her: ]
'Course I do.
[ Duh. ]