"You didn't ask for it," she countered, smiling lazily. Oh, he seemed so very male. Both irritating and amusing at the same time. Mina was getting used to not being the only woman in trousers in a room. She'd accepted, gladly, that her sex had evolved. But she had yet to believe the same could be said for the other.

Well, no matter.

"Typically," she said, "the way these sort of things go is that one introduces oneself. Of course, I don't know what world you come from. So if I've just said something entirely offensive, I do apologize. I'm still in the process of adjusting to the whole notion of different worlds, you know. Quite confusing."