Who the hell-- people didn’t just ‘run into her’. For one thing, at any given point in time, everybody knew where to find Adelaide. It was usually in the middle of a miasma of discomfort, brought on by some nasty comment or an impending fist fight. And if you wandered too close, you’d be the target of that nasty comment, or a participant in the fight.

Convinced it was a freshman, not knowing whom he or she had just stumbled into, she turned to glare down at the unfortunate soul. As it turned out, it was someone who should have known much, much better. “You need to watch where you’re going, Cletus.”