[Again, no shortage on the strange but it beats sharing the stage with someone droning and mundane. He's short, but his ego might as well be Everest and she can't help the strange feeling, like ionic pressure in the air around them, that he was more than just a goofy dude hitting the right arrows.]

I was talking about my own daddy issues, but sure- spill the tea. Who among us doesn't have issues with the parentals these days?

[If the shit with her dad hadn't been so bad she may have deviated toward using her mom as the crutch, but neither of them had ever been very good at the whole parenting thing and once she was orphaned it all went to hell anyway.]