My fist flew forward.
"Nicely done!" said Eldric, although it had glanced off of his palm like a pebble.
"Why aren't you begging for mercy?"
"I make a point never to do so," said Eldric. It puts one at a disadvantage.
I've been thinking," said the Eldric image.
"Ooh, thinking!" I said. "Shall I tell your father?"
"Very funny," said Eldric, but he was laughing.
That girl was gone; wolfgirl had returned. Wolfgirl, who was leaf dance and moon claw and tooth gleam. When Jupiter sizzled the air with lightning bolts, she caught them on the fly.
"Nice throw, Jupiter!"
"Nice catch, wolfgirl!"
Her mouth was a cavern of stars.
Excellent fistibus," said Eldric, but he wasn't done with my hand. He inspected my left palm, the pucker of scars.
"There's no fortune to be read in that palm," I said, but of course he wanted to know about it; of course he'd been dying to ask since we first met. "Do you want the version of the story in which I'm a hero, or do you want the true version?"
"Both," said Eldric.
"Greedy!" I said.
Remember: You're the girl with nothing below the surface. Scratch it and what do you find? More surface.
Franny Billingsley...And then it occurred to him to wonder whether you actually knew what a seduction involves. The details, I mean.
I spread my wicked left hand over my face, but surely slices of crimson tide showed between my fingers. "You're right," I said.
"That you're sorry?"
"That I'm sorry."
"What shall I tell your father?" said Eldric.
"Don't tell him anything!"
"You teased it out of me," said Eldric."You ought to answer. It has your fatehr worried, actually."
"Tell him I read alot." I could almost hear the curling lion's smile in Eldric's voice.
How many bones did he set?" I cared about it much less than they did. It's my Florence Nightingale calm, I suppose.
There was a pause.
"Twenty-seven," said Father.
There was a question mark in that pause. "How many bones are in the hand?"
Another pause.
"Twenty-seven," said Eldric.
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