`` you have your favorite drink , and i have mine . '' `` oh , i intend to , '' i said with a smile . no dirt , no warmth from a human body or mechanism , no disturbance . because a wild card has entered the situation . good , decent , kind people like you think everyone else in the world is like you . he laughed and dropped into the kind of small talk he probably made with all the sea queens . then again , perhaps his father helped with the lack of rain . 