Sometimes that girl just got it into her head that they were pieces that didn't go together, like you could really define people the way you did words, the way she had his name.

"Hey, you know what they say," Mal tells her, "only a stagnant pond stays foul."

She looks at him like he's bumfuck crazy, tells him, "River doesn't mean anything in Latin, stupid."

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hahaha you give good prompts!