If she’d been anyone who mattered, now might’ve been the moment Kristoffer took offence, and made her pay for her rebuttals. He didn’t need her permission to do either, after all.
As it was, the persistence of her pink cheeks gave him the distinct impression that he was still winning the evening, even without trying much at all. Besides, there would be other occasions, other patrols. “Your loss,” Kristoffer said, drifting into insult again as languidly as he was moving down the corridor. “But then again, I should have known a girl like you wouldn’t have any taste.” (She was friendly with Whitledge, after all, and that said plenty. She ought to count herself lucky Kristoffer was so much as wasting breath on conversation with her, truly.)
As it was, the persistence of her pink cheeks gave him the distinct impression that he was still winning the evening, even without trying much at all. Besides, there would be other occasions, other patrols. “Your loss,” Kristoffer said, drifting into insult again as languidly as he was moving down the corridor. “But then again, I should have known a girl like you wouldn’t have any taste.” (She was friendly with Whitledge, after all, and that said plenty. She ought to count herself lucky Kristoffer was so much as wasting breath on conversation with her, truly.)
