@malusscriptor gets a starter
Odette happened to be behind the other girl in line at the café, and in the room between when Odette had made her order and the foreign girl had gotten hers there was the smallest room for conversation, and whether it was because of her own loneliness or compassion with this girl who appeared to be on her own in a strange country, she grabbed it.
“Your French is good,” she said, with a friendly smile. “Have you been here long?”











