Kijani was starting to get very angry, very quickly. While she hadn't dealt directly with a physical bully, she'd dealt with mental bullies all her life. She hated it. Someone needed to take this idiot down a peg. "Hey! Meathead!" The words were out of her mouth before she could stop them, and she was stepping forward.

"Do you always treat your betters like garbage? That's no way to show respect!"

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"Lucky you." Devika murmured. "My mom's... normal. So is my father." She was adopted, but didn't want to mention that to a stranger. "But they roll with the punches, so they learned how to help me."