"I'll just be here telling you what to do with the cards. Great pair!"

"Eh, so long as none of your ideas are terrible, that's probably okay."

"Weren't you just taking about how you're not the best person to decide that?"

"I'm not the best person to decide what's best, but I think I'm able to discard ideas that are really bad. I'm not just gonna do it off-hand; I'd want to actually get your reasoning."

"That's fair, I suppose."

"What about you? What books do you like?"

"I told you, I'm a Pratchett girl," she laughs. "I really like Stephen King's The Dark Tower series."

"Oh right, yeah, but other than Pratchett is what I meant. I haven't actually read any Stephen King."

"Other than Dark Tower I read this and that, but it doesn't really compare. And it's weird, and breaks the fourth wall a bit, but so my thing. And the ending is frustrating, but good frustrating."

"Hah, okay. I don't like unhappy endings, so if it's that kind of frustrating, I wouldn't like it."

"Hmmm, not exactly unhappy? Kinda unhappy. But I don't wanna spoil. The story is about this Earth—at least I think—in the far future where reality's falling apart at the seams, and society has changed a bunch, and this gunslinger called Roland needs to find The Dark Tower to make the world stop falling apart. And then there are these magical doors that take him to other Earths and he gets companions from those Earths and there's a boy and a drug addict and a paraplegic lady and they all become gunslingers and it's great."

"It sounds different from the kind of story I usually read, but to each their own."

"Yeah I suppose. It's really surreal, fantasy meets sci fi meets unspeakable horrors meets time travel."

"What about films, then? I enjoyed Avatar."

"...the Last Airbender?"

"... no, the blue creatures on Pandora?"

"Oh. Yeah, it was fine, I guess. I don't really watch a lot of films."

"Okay, that's weird. 'It was fine'? It was seriously good!"

Shrug. "There were pretty lights?" she tries.

"Okay, but there was so much more than just pretty lights! The whole world was so... detailed and nice!"

Another shrug. "My thing's musicals. And Avatar felt like Pocahontas without the songs."

"I'm not a fan of musicals. I don't think I've ever watched Pocahontas."

"What? I haven't!"