What is wrong with this girl? Etienne asked himself as he watched her...kind of awkwardly spasm before him, but he said nothing and just stared back at her.

Until she turned it back on him.

"Oh," he choked out in an almost nasal voice, and that alone made him try to cough again. He couldn't believe he was feeling this bad all of a sudden. On the bright side, it felt more like a cold than anything else, minor headache coming on and all. "This was on the ground--I was going to throw it out..."