[ Yeah. Clothes lie. You can do a lot to disguise the shittiness of your clothes. But shoes tell the truth. She looks at them, and she understands a little bit more about this boy. And she chats as she takes stock, trying to figure out how best to continue to approach him, to talk him into letting her help him.

Gee, Kitty, why do people think you're overbearing? ]

I thought as much. I could do with some myself, actually. There's a place not so far from here - it's a chain, actually, of coffee places, and their lattes are ridiculously overpriced but their regular coffee is very good and very cheap. And it's just...coffee, too. They're not doing that irritating pour-over thing - have they started doing that in your world? The pour-overs?