[Jade listens between drags, still trying to decide whether she actually likes this "cigarette" thing or not. Maybe she would have at one point, but all it does is make her wish for her pipe again.

[At least it gives her fingers a nice, tingly feeling.]

Humans are pretty dominant on Vyn these days, too. Aeterna like my mother have a... peculiar history there.

[With Jade only being half of both and receiving none of the benefits from either growing up, and all of the conflicting texts, she's reluctant to go too deep into it.

[As she sighs, smoke billows from her mouth.]

Honestly... me, too. But I never fit in with those fancy pants, or even among the bourgeois rabble. No matter where I went, people saw me as beneath them.

[Ironic, considering her height.]