"Well, yeah, I'm curious." Cliff laughed a bit at that. "Trying to make new friends and all, and you stopped and helped me. I haven't been here very long."

He shrugged a little. "I suppose it's a really abrupt way to ask. Sorry for that. But I've always sort of been blunt, I guess. My twin--younger sister--she's the talker and the charismatic one." Cliff was the one who usually hung around and nodded in all the right places while Kat talked. But he couldn't do that here.