Very bizarre man. To suggest that an insect had no thought...and that she was peculiar, no less! Why it was..it was downright...
Buttons forced herself to calm down, wondering what kind of life someone had to lead that they could be so ignorant. She took a good look at the man before her for the first time. His horse looked to be of good stock, and the clothes this man wore suggested a comfortable lifestyle. Obviously not someone who was used to getting down and dirty with nature, from the looks of things. She'd always been under the impression that the wealthier class were well educated, yet this man's opinions suggested anything but. There was more to knowledge than numbers and letters.
"I might say the same about you. Might I ask your name, sir?"
Probably some knight, without his armor, or a lesser noble. Surely no one of any consequence. Not with his obvious lack of experience with the finer points of existence.