[ Hands clasped at the ribbon of her uniform, slightly taken back. ]
A- ah! I didn’t mean to speak out of turn —
“Stop.” stentorian and powerful, he brusquely cuts her off. “You’re dirtying the air with that filthy mouth of yours.” with a pronounced clap, the dull novel he had been studying a moment prior snaps shut. his nostrils flare in his brief moment of quiet.