Notes:

'oh ho! you wanna heckle? OK!'
'you tell the snowdrake that no one will ever love them the way they are…
'…they struggle to make a retort and slink away, utterly crushed …'
(much later)
'OK, you said something like… "You look horrible." "Why are you even alive?"
'…what? you didn't say that?'

'are you serious?'
'just checking'