"Mystery's overrated. There's a lot of interesting things you can see right in front of you," she replied with characteristic bluntness. It wasn't until after she'd already said it that she realized she was being kind of rude.

"I like experiments, too," she added quickly, almost as if she were attempting to reconcile already. "Science and philosophy, mostly. Personally, I think the truth's far more interesting than any fiction could be."

Hair flip.