Ivy grinned a bit to herself. She never expected people to talk during a massage, though she was fine if they wanted to. Sometimes her clients fell asleep, which she took as the highest compliment. She acknowledged his question about the "assholes" in malls with a hum in her throat. There were plenty of therapists who ended up giving fifteen-minute chair massages in busy malls. It wasn't an ideal career path but one had to pay the bills somehow.
The knot she was working on was a stubborn one, but that was okay. Ivy liked a challenge. "You jumped four hundred times?" she asked, her eyes widening in surprise. "That's incredible. I've never been sky diving, but I've gone bungee jumping a couple of times. I know it's probably hard to believe but before I came here I was pretty much up for trying anything. You only live once. I've seen those people jump off the sides od mountains and stuff though. I don't know if I'm that brave."