"Hard for me to do when I don't know what that is."

The low, British-sounding accent that was almost too deep to pass for female issued from behind a large wall of containers, cans, and plates of food. Someone had taken the "all you can eat" concept of a buffet quite literally. There was a scrape of cutlery from behind it, and maybe a slight shock of ginger hair visible above.

"Or were you talking to yourself like a total dingbat?"