He looked and saw a pair of black pumps with a 2? inch heel, and he sawanother cheap price tag, so he took the pair of pointed toe shoes andcarried th...m with the other two pairs to the price register. The finalcosts rang in at $62.34, and he was happy to pay it. He wanted to see ifthere were other shoes to buy, but he knew that he needed some reservemoney for food, so he put down his urge and headed out of the shop. With almost all of his $400 blown through on the equivalent of three daysworth. "Oh look. It's the... the... uh" Xander scrambled to find his words of insult, but Willow spoke before he could finish."It's Cordelia."Xander looked at Willow."Yes. It's the Cordelia," he said pointedly."Look," began Cordelia as Xander sighed in impatience, "I really need some up and up on my Psychology grade. Miss Alexander said I could get some extra credit if I interviewed this mental-hypnotist guy." Hypno-mentalist," corrected Willow."Exactly why I'm here," continued Cordy, "I was wondering. Get a burner phone pronto! Let me guess, you’re starting a new firm outside of the UK as quickly as you can,” I speculated.“Bingo, and only with those staff smart enough to make a dash for it. I doubt that we shall be the only executives to abandon our firms on the sly. And, yes, this is a burner phone. How daft do you think that I am? I withdrew what funds I could to help purchase it, plus I wanted to keep her as poor as I could. I shan’t be around when she seizes my assets back home. That’s a. Aho.”“It’s Mikael, I think we have already agreed about that.”Minna didn’t smile. Now when I thought about it she didn’t smile that often; most often she smiled while playing with Oona and a few times I had seen a smile on her face when she didn’t notice that I could see her in a mirror or a window reflection. Normally she was quite a serious girl and I had gotten some hints that her life hadn’t always been that easy.I was just wondering how to put things into words without putting my foot into.