Nel nodded, as if she'd only had her suspicions confirmed. That definitely sounded like Yylfordt. Part of her wondered if and when he'd ever get around to asking Apache out; he was too quick to deny wanting to for Nel to believe him. The other part of her wondered if Apache would castrate him before he ever did, and thus render the proposition moot. There was no point dating someone who couldn't do after date things.

"He's sensitive," Nel said. "Male egos are very, very delicate." She said this like someone who knew it all too well gently explaining something to someone new to the information. "They bruise easily."