but i feel good...cuckoo cocoon

"You're a bitch."

"Thank you! I try."

Ghondor wrinkled her nose. "What, and you're a kiss-arse too? I take it back. You don't have the stags to be a bitch."

Minoth had quickly surmised, of course, that if he revealed to his young charge he was quoting the foppish half-witticism of a friend he'd known now some decade's centuries ago, he'd lose all favor being a bitch granted in the first place.

"Maybe that's true," he returned instead. "Think I've lost my own reasons to put up a fight, so to speak."

"You better get some, then. Ouroboros don't slack."