[color=gray][b]Jason Alexander[/b][/color]

I regarded the blind girl tacitly, more for my own benefit at this point than believing I could get any kind of reaction out of her. Unfortunately for me, a big failing of the Ascetic Arts was how much they relied on vision.

I never assumed I would encounter a moderately interesting blind person.

Well, at the very least not one that would warrant their use. 

[color=gray]"Not really. You could go down and ask."[/color]

This, of course, assumed she had some method of getting past the barrier of a flight of stairs en route. How she would deal with that, I couldn't say.