She put the sapphire back on and stared at it. Then she did the same with the ruby. She took that off and placed it beside the sapphire.She looked at ...he jeweller and gave him a smile, not a heart-stopper, but a gentle, warm one."Have you any other suggestions?" she asked."Frankly, no. Anything green or yellow would be wrong because of your eyes, which, my dear, are your soul."Victoria blushed. "What do you think, darling?" she asked."They're both beautiful on you, darling." Oh, Mark, you're. Tinystars dotted the sky and the moon was full, glimmeringsilver white above. The sounds of people and animals,from the menagerie, were plenteous, but they hardlynoticed as they walked.She carried a paper cone piled high with spun sugar, herarm linked through his, laughing as he took some of thesweet confection from her fingertips. An overly largestuffed pink hippopotamus under his other arm. He’d wonit knocking over milk bottles, at her imploring. “Thank you, thank you,”. ‘Babe, what are you doing here? Aren’t you supposed to be at work in,’ she glanced at the clock, which read 6:43, ‘like seventeen minutes?’ She asked softy, petting down his ruffled black hair as he yawned. ‘Nope, day off. Came to see you and-‘ another yawn erupted, ‘-fell asleep.’ Here he paused and frowned at her. ‘Did you just get home?’ Sammie smiled half heartedly, than slowly took off her jacket, delaying what was sure to come. ‘I went to see Jase,’ she said, not looking at Oz. ‘Ahhh…’. "The game, the heroineawakened something in me." Well, then my life's work has helped someone."Scott shrugged.Leslie hands seemed to slide over his body and hold him standing there."Come on. You clearly found out something about yourself." Her eyeswanted her hands to grope him."I guess," said Scott not wanting to give in and agree."Let's go up top to the cafeteria and have lunch." No!" Scott's whole body stiffened.The elevator opened. Scott hadn't realized that they had even walkedto the.