Nathan Ford (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} nate_ford) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} omega_reality, |
"Oh please," Nate answered, glancing around before lowering his voice and making sure he was talking in down wind so that Mrs Russell couldn't hear him from the house. "She's been playing everyone in town since getting here. Oh she's basing it in her own personality but then that's what a good grifter does."
"I still think she's an honest woman, and I'm certainly not calling her devious. I don't doubt that she wouldn't do half the things we've done, but she plays people when she needs to protect her family, and if you can't see that then you haven't watched her since we got here." She hadn't played people at the school or in New York, but Nate was more and more realizing that this kind of society was her stage. This was where she had grown up, this was what she understood, even without thinking about it she knew what to say when and to whom.