Aiden Shepard [ Abraham Van Helsing ] (arcere) wrote in bellumlogs,
He was going to tell her that he didn't make books, that he just put the information they had together in neat rows and columns that would go universally unappreciated by anybody ever, but as she kept talking that was shuffled to the side. Her voice was ... changing. It wasn't getting higher or lower or switching over to another person entirely, but she was definitely sounding more Southern. A slow grin crept across his face. Sure, he was no person to mock an accent, but then again, he never bothered to hide his.
"Where were you born?" Aiden asked, which would be completely out of the blue for Joanie. He leaned more on the bar and took another long drink, watching her as she got more and more drunk and apparently less and less in control of her own voice. Fascinating. She went to all this trouble to hide that accent. He was a little curious as to why, since it didn't seem entirely too awful, but then again, in New York, who knew ...