"Yeah! That's Bashy all right. He's real shy; I'm shocked he even made it as long as he did at the party. Though, uh, I think he stuck around after so long to make sure I wouldn't end up pukin' on some stranger's lawn. I mighta hit the sauce a lil hard and ended up drunker 'n a lord. He got me home safe, though, so there's that. All's well, right?"

Jesse listens sympathetically to Harrow's complaints of living among races longer lasting their theirs and tilts his mouth to one side in a sort of facial shrug. "I can see that gettin' real old, yeah. Humans are pretty damn clever and impressive and crazy all on their own! An' I'm sayin' that from a place what's full of 'em and we ain't got nothing magical to be amazed at. Figure some people would find it kinda borin' compared to your sorta hodown."