I shrugged. "That's not as much fun. Also, considering the insanity of some of the stuff here I need to practice every skill and talent I have until I perfect it to even have a fighting chance at living here." Victoria kept on walking, leaving me with the stranger.

The man carried on swiping. "Don't start easy. When you start easy, you expect difficult things to be easy. When you start difficult, you expect easy things to be difficult." The man paused. "Hey, I had to think that one up on the fly."

"And it had no affect on me at all since it's terrible advice for what I was just doing. I...I honestly don't know why you just said that, but okay. I guess that's the kind of stuff people around here say. They try to be all bad*ss and mysterious all the time when in reality they're mostly just old cliches. Most of them seem to be f*cking veteran war heroes, but have no idea how to fight. It's like I was dropped into an action movie. A really bad one at that." I wasn't someone that enjoyed being told what I already knew. Even if someone was trying to be nice. Hey, we're all *ssholes in some way.

"If you want terrible advice, I've learned from the best."

"Oh yeah? At least you're not quick to a fight like a lot of people here. My name's Don. Who're you?"