There was a spark in her blue eyes.He slapped his wallet down on the table."See that," he said. "That's our law book."The table erupted in laughter ag...in."So where are you girls from?" Lee asked.Their pale skins and accents clearly marked them as not local."Romania," Acarina replied."You're a long way from home," Schreck said."There's good money out here," the blonde girl in the leopard-print dress shrugged. She lit up a cigarette."Romania, ain't that Dracula country?" Blasko asked.The girls. As she watched, the dragon’s coils expanded, deviating from their neat, overlapped paths. It slithered around her, deftly reaching out to encompass her arms as it turned. It crawled slowly down around her hips, frightening away the butterflies, diving between her legs to coil around one thigh then the other. It had her, but it toyed with her. The gates would have crushed her quickly, mercifully. As it undulated around her form in a single, sinuous arc of circumscription, it clung tight around. "Come on, Al. I wasn't born yesterday. Those two have been doing each other for some time, or I'll give up my card in the Mothers' Society." Well. Yeah. They have," I confessed. "I think it is recreational and relief from teenage hormone pressures, mostly. They're really close and love each other. They date other kids ... But, you know, I wouldn't be unhappy if they did fall in love." I wouldn't either, Al. In fact, I hope it happens for them early on, so they can avoid the mistakes we made.. ”“Nice humble brag there,” Selena said, chuckling.“Well, it’s the truth,” Taylor said, smiling despite the empty spot in her heart. “It’s always been that way, and then the car wreck just kinda put things in perspective, for both of us.”“I would so be there in a heartbeat, but I have the tour and everything,” Selena said, wishing she could be there for her friend.“That’s okay, I understand,” Taylor assured her. “Besides, I think I’m covered there. I asked Austin how guys handle breakups and he.