Rogue laughed, a large smile stretched across her face. "I know that all too well," she confided. "Being surrounded by dozens of teenage boys meant I got to deal with that sort of thing pretty regularly. It was nice when I finally had the authority to teach them some manners." Not that it had stopped her before; she'd never been one to hold back when someone needed to be taught a good lesson.

She felt an instinctive need almost to apologize for her species being mainly a bunch of idiots, but Todd already knew that about humans. He'd been dealing with them for a long while now, and he'd seen the best and worst of them, just as she had. So she moved on to a different topic.

Nodding to his plate of breakfast, she said, "I've noticed it's fairly hit or miss as to whether your crew likes sweet things. Where do you stand on it?" After the baked apples, she'd tried a few other sweeter desserts to go along with a savory meal, to mixed results.