I got her up, put my musket across my back, and we started walking, hand in hand just to be secure of each other. "So tell me, since I'm nosy, how a f...ne young woman could end up under such a gouty old man."She looked sideways at me. "He wasn't so bad," she said. "He'd known me since I was born I guess, friend of the family, he was." So, what are you, twenty, twenty-five?" Sixteen," she said, skipping for a step, "Just barely sixteen in fact. My father owed him money, a lot of money. We married. I think you've forgotten that most people can't see me unless I want them to." Good thing, since you still don't have the energy to clothe yourself in even the skimpiest clothes." I've got it. It's just not permanent energy, so I choose not to expend it on clothes no one can see. But that's not the point." What is?" The point is when you talk to me, it looks to most like you're talking to yourself."Dannie looked around, noticing that a few people were staring at her and muttering. She. Well I wasn't going to see anything as the lenses had beenmade opaque. Looking down I could just see below the bottom of theframes but it wasn't worth the effort I wasn't going to get any cluesabout the finished me."I need to do your shoes now" as Victoria lifted by right foot. Ithought it was odd for a few seconds as it was not shoes that she wasfitting, then I realised that it was some sort of short, ankle lengthsock. Then the shoe, clearly it had a heel which was obvious when theshoe was. Don't sound so desperate! Why not? I wondered. I *am* desperate.There was another slight pause, and then she chuckled throatily. "I could tell you that you agreed to anything, you know."I grabbed my nerve with both hands. "Yes. Anything. I'll do it." There was another moment of silence. "It's worth it," I added. "You are." Anything?" she asked archly. A hint of a laugh?Ka-thump, ka-thump, ka-wham. Hearts, I decided, are a bother. If I could get rid of mine, I wouldn't be in this position. Time.
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