Well, she couldn't exactly deny it. Ephraim was handsome, but that was awkward to agree with when she looked like him because then it'd make him sound vain. Ephraim was confident, but not necessarily arrogant. At least, she didn't consider him to be.

She cleared her throat and tried to sit a little more straight. "Ah. Well..." And there was just no way to get past that, was there? She could keep up a charade for only so long, after all. "These hot springs... seem to have a way of showing things in a way they don't necessarily appear."

I'm not really a boy at all. And I have no idea how to be one.