She does not cry or mourn and she pretended not to notice me. It started a month ago and I just can’t seem to get it out of my mind. It was an echo ...f a rat-a-tat sound of falling rain on a tin roof, a cycle that seemed to repeat itself over and over again. I had been here before but I had a feeling that once I left- I would never, ever, return. The phone rang and I answered it- even then I could tell she was wearing that damn mask. The one with emerald eyes and clown painted cheeks. I could. Virginia, meanwhile, simply dipped her bread directly into the dish. “But the elves aren’t known for meddling in the affairs of us lowly mortals.”Virginia nodded. “The last time the elves did anything on the political stage was during the Age of Legends, when Nasrudin and the Elven Council laid down the law. I, uh, finally did manage to stop by the Panarii temple in Tarant.”“Oh, did you now?” I asked.“Yes, while you were meeting with Mr. Bates,” she said. “Nasrudin and the elven council were. ”“I didn’t send that to you. How did you get it?” he blurted out.“The same way I got your number, and your address, and pretty much everything,” she said while walking over to the couch.She sat down, and it was only then that he realized she was wearing the same pink hoodie and pants from the pictures she’d sent him. His face burned as he remembered the tiny thumbnails of her body.“You were trying so hard not to look at me last week that I could see your address in the email you were. Tom picked out some movie and we both laid there in our swim suits with only the bedside light on watching the flick. We weren’t very far into the movie and I noticed out of the corner of my eye that Tom was rubbing himself through his suit. I thought back to the night before and became instantly hard myself. Tom got up and made a comment about too much beer and walked into the bathroom to relieve himself. When he cam out he was buck naked. I thought he would go for some boxers to wear but.