"Oh yeah! I mean, sometimes folks is a little put off, but that don't hurt my feelin's none. Heck, I'm usually the one on the polite defensive anyway. I don't touch no one or even get close enough for touchin' if I can help it. The fact there's cowpokes here now who don't shrink from a hug or a handshake from ol' Rotten Jesse is kinda novel, honestly. Surprises me a little every time, but not in a bad way, nossir.

"Honestly, things really started lookin' up for me'n mine since I found the Nexus. Met a lot of real upright and decent folk. Yourself included." Maybe even ESPECIALLY Blaze.