"Place is full of tossers," Effy let Kate know, though a part of Effy wondered if they were the sort of tossers that Kate would've liked. If they were the sort of tossers that just about all girls their aged liked, really, if only because they were handsome, debonair, and their accents were worthy of awe, if nothing else. There was something about the way that they looked at a woman, though, that left Effy just tempted to laugh, pushing their cheeks away whenever they drew too close. A good boost for her confidence, she supposed, if nothing else.

She bit down on her lower lip in thought.

"I liked traveling with my mum," she concluded, glancing over in Kate's direction. "Was the first time that I really got to talk to her in years, you know? 'round the house, we never got to it much."