“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.”
laughed. “I have no
did my mother. School administrators were not so insightful.” Her eyes twinkled mischeviously. “Until
will be like.” Her daughters would be
least it didn’t seem so to him, but
a male kouros statue. “Nice to see
statue had seriously developed abs and thighs that could crack an opponent’s back in a wrestling match, ancient or modern. However, the genitals were
into a grin. “I read
be used as artists’
to, drawing the attention of those around them. While most of it was indulgent, one serious-looking elderly man glared. And a young woman sent
encouraging once-over when he and Piper had first arrived at the National Museum, but he
and smiled down at his beautiful companion. “That is not something you have to worry about
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