"Welp... got another sad bit of news for ya. Someone's always gonna see somethin' in ya that you don't see yourself. That counts for both good and bad. I don't believe half the shit people say about me, especially the good half... some of the bad half I'm just like, 'Yeah sure cool story I don't care about you," about. But still, people are gonna see things about you that stand out as worth havin'."

He takes another drink of his coffee. Lord knows about 90% of the time he doesn't believe what's told about him that's worth keeping. But here he is, somehow with friends. Idia, he figures, could end up the same. But then again he's one of the more skittish souls he's met around here. But that could be that he's talking to a shark of a person.