Shunsui had to stop and blink at Octavia a little at that one. If he had...a choice? What kind of question was that? He'd never have a choice, and, even when he did stand out, even just by accident, just like his brother said, it was in all the wrong ways...

And the only attention he'd get that was the right way was attention he definitely didn't want.

Boy, he probably looked like a flamingo now; his face felt like it was burning up enough! So he was just going to laugh it away, like he always did.

"No way!" he said between his laughter. "Not in a million years!"

Or, well, maybe more like a hundred...

...or maybe just even two or three...once he realized that it might actually be okay to be a flamingo rather than a duck.