She had blue eye shadow and shiny blue one-inch nails. Oh Gosh, I'mgetting so hot just thinking about it. And the best part was she had thisshimmery m...tallic blue lipstick. And her pink tongue just looked so yummytracing a line across her upper lip. And swinging at her side was a bluepurse, which I can only assume, had all her makeup in case she thought Iwas taking her out. Lastly she had a black wig on that had blondehighlights, but she had turned them to blue highlights. Mmmmmm."Hi Mistress. Leaving the coffee machine to brew, I took a seat next to Carol, who was browsing the web on her phone. As the machine rang, I got up, took my cup, and made my way back to take a seat. We both started looking at each other as we drank out cups of coffee. I decided to break that awkward silence by opening up with a random conversation."This coffee tastes great. Belgian?" I asked."African." She said. "Dad got it from his last trip to Africa." Awesome. I hear it's nice over there." I said."You. I mean, there were hospitals in Houston. If we could occupy a hospital in San Antonio, why not do the same here? Why make the trip at all? San Antonio had made the most sense, as a destination, when we had been making our plans to drive inland from Corpus Christi Harbor. But why go there now? Why not scout comparable locations, right here?I thought it was a good question, and, quietly, I asked Dr. Montoya what he thought."We could stay here," he agreed. "There are likely to be facilities here. To inconvenience himself like that, to stop researching, and get up out of his chair just for a kiss? He was too damn good at being romantic.Which Jen caught onto immediately, and swooned, before she started wandering around the library. Not library, study room. Much as the walls were covered in books, there weren’t any rows of the bookshelves.“How you been?” he said. “Haven’t seen you for a few nights.”Triss nodded, shrugging. “Been ... getting in deep with Jacob, honestly.”Jen threw a glance.