Beau chuckled roughly and juggled the apple from one hand to the other, back and forth a few times. "Yeah, I'm starting to get the idea that's just the kind of thing you have to put up with every now and then? Could be worse, right? At least you get free food out of it."

She narrowed her eyes thoughtfully; she was pretty sure she'd never seen Karolina around before, but she kind of sounded vaguely familiar.

"'sup," she added, actually managing a bit of a smile, or an attempt at one anyway. "Have we like met? Because I don't remember you, but I kinda feel like we have. Like you sound familiar? Or I could have been hung over at the time and I don't know what I'm talking about, so . . ."