[ Both comments are taken, and Sarah watches for a moment. A girl of this age, this disposition... If she was playing for normal, she failed as much as Nigel does, and Sarah's quick to spot it just the same. It's in the responses, the layout of each sentence. And just as Sarah had told Nigel over and over, it's likely if she told this girl, Sarah would fail to enlighten all the same.

That type never gets it.

And anyway--

She hands over the change, then presses a hand to her chin as if in thought. ]

Tourist season's over so there's no long-term motels open right now. And from the look of things, you're sticking around for a while at least. Are you at the Morales house up on 3rd or the Stocker apartments?

[ She makes a face. ]

Don't say you're staying at the Linkerton co-op. That place is such a craptastic den of inequity.