“We had stoneware in the home and you’re right. It didn’t last long.”
“My mom bought those unbreakable dishes, but nothing could prevent us kids losing them. The small square bowls made too good a shovel in a pinch.”
“I can just imagine you as a small child.”
“I was a terror.”
“But shy with strangers,” he guessed.
“Yep. Teachers never believed my mom about me until I’d organized my first boycott of the cafeteria’s no-name catsup. That stuff was nasty. Or had a petition going to reinstate outdoor school when budget cuts threatened that right of passage. It didn’t usually happen until my second year in school anyway.” She sounded altogether proud of herself.
“I see, you lulled the authority figures around you into complacency and then you sprang.”
“That’s about it.”
“I have no problem
mother. School administrators were not so
to think what your children will be like.” Her daughters would be stubborn, her sons protective and
shrug that wasn’t. Negligent. At least it didn’t seem so to him, but he didn’t ask her about it because she was
of a male kouros statue. “Nice to see
that could crack an opponent’s back in a wrestling match, ancient or modern. However, the genitals were nothing to write home about. “I hope
a mocking little smile that made him want to do something that would turn that smile into a grin. “I read somewhere that the aspect of a statue’s form was deliberately underrepresented so the focus could
the only men willing to be used as artists’ models
most of it was indulgent, one serious-looking elderly man glared. And a young woman sent daggers Piper’s way,
had given him an encouraging once-over when he and Piper had first arrived at
back on her and smiled down at his beautiful companion.
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