Strong Competition

"Well, well, I see someone can't get enough of the taste of victory. Either that or you and yours just completely suck at answering romantic questions." 

Hospitality doesn't usually begin with degrading your potential customers. At least that was what I was taught having to survive Nick's once-a-week hour-long homilies on customer service. 

But then here's this cheek elf attendant right in front of me, chuckling heartily after the fact. Lucky for her, seems we don't adhere to the same service scriptures. 

"What do you got for me this time?" I asked upfront. "Beauty contest, right? You got a catwalk inside that tent somewhere? Gonna have me strut and strip in front of an entire audience of judges?" 

"You're taking the title a little too literally," She said, slamming a form of registry down in front of me, and rolling over a pen to the side. "You know, how they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right?"