Can’t I have a moment to myself? I am proud to bring her into the 21st Century, and if readers are willing, I’d be happy to keep her adventures going. Your business is merely to find and turn her. Now that’s a lie, I know I’m a fat cow, everyone says so, even Trace, I started saying, but she put her finger against my lips. She was soaked through. If I were lying in the woods like that…I’d want someone to come for me. I talked to her when she got into bed, and all of a sudden she told me that my eyes were pretty. My mind slipped back over years and decades and two long centuries, to the time I was with another girl, the same age as this one, in a bedroom considerably more ornate than this, in a castle whose walls were long crumbled. I’ll do it.”
He nodded, as though he’d known it all along. Please don’t go. I know some pillocks who’d follow someone dripping like that, pointing and laughing.
