Jason Alexander
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.
"Not really. You could go down and ask."
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.