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“No one is going to see it until it’s finished I have a process”

“Jeez, you artists are so emotional” I backed away

She kicked her foot against mine

“Watch it, I just got these”

“Hey” She leaned up off the wall, grinning “You’re wearing them! They fit?”

“I wouldn’t be wearing them if they didn’t fit How in the world did you know my size, anyway?”

“I was prettyup—”

“Shocker”

She glared at er”

“Of course Just look at me”

“I am—”

“Anyway, you were a toinally been saying

“Oh yeah I spent hborhood We all basically grew up together, and ere always barefoot in the rivers I can kind of guess a guy's shoe size when I compare it to theirs in my head”

In the rivers? “Where are you from?”

“Cypress, Alaska, home of the best wild salmon in the country” She raised her head up and nodded