With a shrug that was nearly bashful, something that was more his Littlest brother's area not his, Slav was quick to respond, "In my experience, you start talking in a Southern accent, and people start knocking IQ points off by the second." He really did not need help there, not at all. It was bad enough that people already underestimated his intelligence as it was, at least from what he knew, even he had noticed.
Okay, that was enough to make him laugh. "You do know that you have an accent, right?" Maybe she did not hear it, since she saw it as a native thing, but the very fact that she was from an area other than where he had been born made the sound of her voice carry an accent in its depths.