This week with Arlene and Jeff:
...The genius went back to the coffee machine to make herself a cup. Jeff opened his mouth to say that children shouldn't drink so much coffee, but the comment died before it escaped his lips. He was certain that with her memory and intellect, he would lose the battle yet again, so he just smiled instead.
Then, she dropped a non sequitur as she was wont to do on occasion. "How many men have you killed? Uh, perhaps I should change the noun. How many antagonists have you killed," she asked as she put in a dash of cream and started adding sugar - lots of it.
Jeff mentally winced, as he usually did when he watched her fixing her coffee.
"Perhaps it would be simpler to ask how many beings have you killed?"
"Selina, you know damn well that I have never killed anyone who wasn't trying to kill me or one of my people."
"Stalliiinnnggg" she said as she dragged out the word while staring over the top of her cup.
After seating herself, she turned to him. "You are not going to tell me - yet again - are you? This leads me to believe the number is quite large, or else you cannot enumerate it due to circumstances. Or you are protecting my fragile ego since I'm only a child," she practically snarled, not even noticing that her use of contractions was becoming automatic...
Have a goodun;
Roust