[color=fff79a]"Ah-ha. Well, you can ask Elaine here,"[/color] he nodded towards the hunter-looking female still at her table, [color=fff79a]"or maybe wander around north or west. There's talk from the south, too, but you know, southerners..."[/color] and he made a condescending handwave, [color=fff79a]"sensible folk stay up, not down."[/color]

The traditional tension between northerners and southerners was apparently very much part of this man, and probably the town in general.