[ don grins, bright and alive. ]

Nor do I. I am glad that thee differ in that way to him, for when we spoke... when he grew angered with me, he was not inclined to feel the same.

[ or so it felt. a man too battered, too beaten by the way the city turns; don has no idea all of what he has gone through, but she learned enough then. they may not see eye to eye, but her conviction won't exclude him in that world. ]