[Still off-screen, though the noises cease after a moment. Eventually it becomes clear that her lack of visibility within the view of the omnicom's camera is a deliberate choice; just out of view, listening, her counsel kept to herself.] I didn't call you a pervert, I called you a man. Men are never that complicated to read.
[She really doesn't sound like she's being rude or insulting about it. It sounds more like something she's never really given much thought - Men Are Like This, Women Are Like That, Good Girls Should - and has chosen not to bother herself with having an actual opinion about how any individual person chooses to take that logic unless someone makes her have to bother with it, rather than interrogate where she might have gotten the wrong idea about any of this.]
... a "q-tip".
[Something else she doesn't know about and will have to ask someone or something about later, coming right alongside an answer to a question she didn't know needed asking. Velvet, who has never bought a pair of clothes she couldn't make or take, files that information on the meaning of "Hot Topic" away with all the respect that one gives a piece of information about something one does not know in a universe full of things one does not know and can't be sure which might come back to haunt them later. She's not really enjoying thinking about all the ugly surprises she might have coming she doesn't even know to brace herself for yet.]
[It doesn't mean she isn't trying to provoke him with what she says next. She likes to know what she's dealing with, after all. But it puts more hostility under her words than he actually earns. She is who she is - and she'd like to think she doesn't have to do it again, but ... she could live with herself if she declared war on the whole universe, if she thought she had to. She always sounds meaner than she realizes, when she's reminded that she could.]
Tch. You don't buy "shy" ... Mannequins, huh? And if I told you they were corpses instead, what would you say to that?
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[She really doesn't sound like she's being rude or insulting about it. It sounds more like something she's never really given much thought - Men Are Like This, Women Are Like That, Good Girls Should - and has chosen not to bother herself with having an actual opinion about how any individual person chooses to take that logic unless someone makes her have to bother with it, rather than interrogate where she might have gotten the wrong idea about any of this.]
... a "q-tip".
[Something else she doesn't know about and will have to ask someone or something about later, coming right alongside an answer to a question she didn't know needed asking. Velvet, who has never bought a pair of clothes she couldn't make or take, files that information on the meaning of "Hot Topic" away with all the respect that one gives a piece of information about something one does not know in a universe full of things one does not know and can't be sure which might come back to haunt them later. She's not really enjoying thinking about all the ugly surprises she might have coming she doesn't even know to brace herself for yet.]
[It doesn't mean she isn't trying to provoke him with what she says next. She likes to know what she's dealing with, after all. But it puts more hostility under her words than he actually earns. She is who she is - and she'd like to think she doesn't have to do it again, but ... she could live with herself if she declared war on the whole universe, if she thought she had to. She always sounds meaner than she realizes, when she's reminded that she could.]
Tch. You don't buy "shy" ... Mannequins, huh? And if I told you they were corpses instead, what would you say to that?