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HER EYES FLICKED to just beyond Elisa’s shoulder and landed on Pin. “And who’s this?” Elisa glanced back but gave a dismissive shrug before she turned to face Vera again. Her smile had become a little more guarded. “Just some kid looking for a bite. I guess I felt bad.” “How charitable.” Vera looked at the blindfolded girl and let her pity show plainly. “I bet she could make money fucking the guys too ugly to touch. She wouldn’t know any better, would she?” Elisa winced and her tolerant countenance vanished entirely. “What do you want, Vera?” Elisa asked impatiently. “Last time I saw you you said you’d rather keep working in daddy’s bar than ‘waste your time bending over on the corner.’ Real nice phrasing, by the way. Did getting your ass grabbed for free all night change your mind?” “Just as prickly as usual,” Vera replied with an easy grin. She tipped her head back, refreshing her hair with a somewhat triumphant shake of her head and sweep of her hand. “I heard you haven't been in the Court as much lately, at least not since that Ambassador picked you up. Spend all his pretty pennies already?” Taken from part five of “The Fourth Sigil” Book One of “The Seeker”