[Realm of Little Alice]
Little Alice found herself somewhat unwillingly impressed by how effortlessly Grimm could provoke her when he chose to put even the slightest bit of effort behind his words. It was not loud or exaggerated—there was no obvious malice in the way he spoke—but that almost made it worse. He said things plainly, without care, and somehow that made them linger longer than they should.
She had not expected that kind of childishness from him.
From someone who carried himself the way he did—so rigid and composed—she had assumed a different sort of temperament.
Instead, he was irritatingly blunt.
Still, she refused to let herself be outdone by someone she had already categorized as a brute.
With a controlled motion, she turned on her heel—graceful, reclaiming a sense of composure through the act alone—and began to walk away from him, her pace neither rushed nor slow.
