"So, can I come in? I'm not really dressed for this weather."Her comment brought me back to the present. I opened the door and she scooted in quickly....My elevator eyes did a full scan. I started at her feet, which were wearing fuzzy pink slippers. Her legs were better looking up close, exposed all the way up to her jacket. Her hands were still stuffed into her jacket pockets for warmth. She was shivering. When I got to her face, I saw she had been watching me scan her the whole time. That's. They will find someplace to conspire outside of earshot of the soldiers. Hulett is a large holding and the soldiers will not be everywhere at once. I can concoct some story about being mistreated after their departure and they will accept it. They already believe the worst of the king and his advisers. I can enlist my sister’s help in creating the ruse. That will put me back in their good graces. I can keep the soldiers advised of what is transpiring and they can get the information to you or. Ha. If only that were true.Once again, her light chocolate colored hand went into her pocket and touched the small box. So much was riding on this. So much ... how could one little ring be tearing her apart with doubt and worry?"Because you love her, you idiot."Darn. She had said that out loud. Bad habit, that, and one she hadn't developed until losing Dad. Oh, before then Violet had found herself having conversations with the ghost of "Mommy Lisa", whom she had never met, but who was sort of. They both looked into the packs the steward had given them."I've got water," Béla announced, pulling out a liter bottle. The bottle was made of some new unbreakable glass that she didn't recognize. The new glass appeared after it was 'discovered' (read revealed) that the softer plastic containers leached oxidants into the supposedly pure, clean water that people began purchasing when it was 'discovered' (revealed, again) that most city water supplies were polluted with oxidants and heavy.
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