“I’m all for letting your freak flag fly,” says the walking freak flag. Unfortunately he takes her description as self-deprecatory rather than (unkindly) factual. “But maybe not so much on the breaking bones to do it side of things.”

He eyes her wrist and cast thoughtfully. “Are we talking the invading London kind of elves or a different kind?” Never heard of an Au Ra or a Roegadyn, but he’s seen all kinds of weird thanks to two years on Sakaar.

“And what kind of guy is Dread?” He puts a question on “guy” as well. It sounds like the kind of name a guy would pick, but it’s not exactly a gender-specific name.