[ She sticks her tongue out at him as she walks backwards into the room, casual and incautious. It leaves glitter on her tongue and a fuzzy texture in her mouth. She doesn't care. It's one more thing in this flood of so much. ]

I'm not a sap. I'm just brutally honest. Don't dish it if you can't take it.

[ That's what that was. ]

Get in here, coward, you're fucking up our time.