"Perfect people are boring at best. Most of them go on to being completely insufferable." Like elves. Completely and totally insufferable, how they prided themselves on being just so, and looking down their too perfect noses at anyone who wasn't.

If Snow was someone else, Vex would have pulled her into a hug. But Snow was Snow, as Vex had just pointed out, so Vex reached out slowly, telegraphing her movements and watching for signs she should pull back without smoothing one of Snow's braids.