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After their guest has left, Pela is amiably lazing around - still unclothed, naturally - on the balcony bed, sprawled on her stomach with a newspaper she can almost completely read by now. She's noticed some onlookers casting furtive, wide-eyed glances at her from the building across the way, but pays them no mind - they're too far away to ( Read more... )
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For purely tactical reasons, we're sure, James has ... got a pair of pants back on, at least, although this is all he's wearing when he comes back to sit opposite her with a drink (his lighter and cigarette case get tossed down onto the sheets in front of him, he'll worry about that soon).
"Nice girl, wasn't she."
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"Sweet, I think. I like human women, thus far- but I think most of them don't think as well of themselves as they ought." Mina Olin notwithstanding. She looks at James over her shoulder, in profile, thoughtful.
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"We can't all have a mermaid's ego." ...James is the wrong person to make that assertion, but this doesn't actually stop him from saying it. Either way, he raises an eyebrow at her when she looks at him like that.
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"Nor should everyone, especially if they aren't mermaids. But in my case, it's warranted." ...she is so arrogant, but also: sliding up behind him to press her (bare) chest to his back, chin on his shoulder.
"Was that the three-person tango?"
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