"You heard her? Right through your lodgings? I didn't know we were conversing loudly, or are the embankments that thin?"
"No, I—uh, seem to possess more perceptive hearing."
And sort of cute ears, narrowly edged at the ends.
"So, about the neighbors…they're not as horrible as she believes they are?"
"They're not horrible at all. Dotty's the crazy one, if you ask me."
"How so?"
"Always clutching her nose into other people's business. She behaves like she has to safeguard her nephew's possession or something. Like one of us is about to scorch the territory to the ground at any moment."
Eve loll back.
"Why would anyone commend that? You reside here too."
"Exactly."
She jerked her head. "Well, you don't have to bother about her influencing my decision. I'm an advocate. I shape my own viewpoints based on proof, not hearsay."
"Sheesh, you even sound like a lawyer."
