[She smiles unkindly, and her posture shifts, a hand to her hip and a little cock of her head. It feels good to be mean, to take swings she feels confident in. This guy doesn't look like he's missed a meal in his life. How does someone like that expect to be taken seriously?

She may be a bad person, but her experience is everything to her.]

Then you should fucking know better than to hope unless you've got the solution in your hands, asshole. These people don't. This is the best they're ever going to have it.