"The straining sound that his companion’s straw made as the drink was steadily being drunk away sounded like bad plumbing. He relinquished the straw seconds later to chew on tapioca pearls. He himself sipped in silence, relishing the honeydew flavor. In this little sequence of events, one could easily distinguish the basic differences in their personalities, but only the very simple. One was loud, one was quiet.

But if one were to expand on such things, say, ask why the smaller one was so loud. Had he grown up with a house of rowdy boys? Had his father been a sports’ fan who became rather passionate about an ongoing game? Perhaps his mother had been one of the women who often spoke loudly and without tact.

There could be many assumptions humans could make of other humans but these two were not the main focus at this point in time. Technically speaking, they were proxies to the following events but they are expressing things that they had seen, not experienced."