She hears them before she sees them. Her slightly drooping ears abruptly twitch straight and taut as the Auri approach, silver hoop earrings dancing in the wake of her pricked attention. Pushing 7 feet in her heels, Polyitsaux none the less feels like a mouse bailed up by alley cats. It’s too early and she’s not drunk enough for this level of social interaction. Her slender chest strains to breathe within the confines of her corset.
Poly has to crane her neck to look at the Auri woman, sunglasses creeping down the straight slope of her nose. She studies Mia with murky pink eyes shadowed by fake lashes and swamped by makeup. If she felt like a mouse before, now she feels like a dhalmel.
“I like your hat,†she says to Mia, then adds in a conspiratorial murmur, “I collect hats,†then to Marisa she says, lofting the pearl earring she found, “I’ll take this and five of the ah – the –“ she shakes the earring at the wooden box of explosives, “booms.†She smiles with too much teeth.
Poly has to crane her neck to look at the Auri woman, sunglasses creeping down the straight slope of her nose. She studies Mia with murky pink eyes shadowed by fake lashes and swamped by makeup. If she felt like a mouse before, now she feels like a dhalmel.
“I like your hat,†she says to Mia, then adds in a conspiratorial murmur, “I collect hats,†then to Marisa she says, lofting the pearl earring she found, “I’ll take this and five of the ah – the –“ she shakes the earring at the wooden box of explosives, “booms.†She smiles with too much teeth.
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