"Why, I'm a fop," he responds, stretching his neck and feeling a pop of vertebrae. Satisfying, that. "A dandy and a fool. And other things besides. A worthless little town clown. And, most crucially, I suspect, I'm annoying to her." He gives a little half-smile and shrugs. "Simple personal dislike counts for rather a lot, even to a good and honorable High Vor like her."