Eh eh eh. But there are more interesting stories out there and people can be convinced. I am quite a good talker, as you know, and can cook up rumors of my own. Bigger and better ones than that strange, mundane one.

[Because he wasn't in the business of getting into fistfights on behalf of friends, this was the next best thing. Zacharie was not one to get riled up by this and that, but there was something...irritating about that rumor. Perhaps it had to do with a girl he knew, and her own pills and rumors.

Maybe, but he's not going to say it.]