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Midnight Lass
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In the private residence of Max Tarloff, Max and his wards were enjoying a private dinner. Max was using the time to try to impart twenty plus years of accumulated practical engineering expertise. Granted, his wards might be the most brilliant design engineers he had ever encountered, but there was a world of difference between how an airship handled on a test run within sight of the hangar as opposed to being leagues away from home.
In his private quarters, Dandy was having the same kind of supper with Miharu. But unlike Max and the twins, Dandy wasn't worried about Miharu. The young woman, for all her cute and innocent ways, had been fighting for survival since she had escaped a native feud in Japan. Her reputation as a bodyguard in the city was such that most criminals didn't even contemplate attacking someone she was protecting. So instead Dandy enjoyed a quiet supper with the daughter of his heart.
Ayisha and Bianca had supper with Doc Cummings, who was his normal, friendly yet outrageous self. Ayishu could see the telltale signs of the onset of the final stage of Chimera Bite in Doc's face, but said nothing, affecting the cheerful mood that was the tempo of their dinner.
Onboard the Midnight Curse, Vu and Qui had made a repast for Safa and Tamra that would have been the dictionary definition of sumptuous in any setting. The Vietnamese young ladies had made tartines so delicious that they would have made Captain James weep if he'd only known that all he had to do to have one was return to his airship for supper. As luck would have it, Vietnamese was one of the grab bag of languages that Safa spoke, and it was the only language that Qui spoke, so the four ladies had a delightful conversation during and after dinner.
Somewhere along the eastern shores of the Lost Continent, Kisu was studying the colors of the fire before her, occasionally tossing in different colored powders and observing their reactions.
Somewhere east of the Cook Islands, a Mediterranean woman and a Polynesian woman were island hopping their way to Central America, with their plot carefully designed to take them north of the Lost Continent. A makeshift distillery in the cargo area of the aeroplane ensured that the aeroplane, modified to land on the water, would make it to Central America. Afterr Central America, their plans became a little hazy but, considering all they had survived so far, they weren't worried.
And just outside the women's bathroom in the Mathematics Department, two doctoral students in the University's small but thriving physics department were waiting to meet an airship captain to discover if a young janitorial worker was the female version of a Horatio Algers character.
In his private quarters, Dandy was having the same kind of supper with Miharu. But unlike Max and the twins, Dandy wasn't worried about Miharu. The young woman, for all her cute and innocent ways, had been fighting for survival since she had escaped a native feud in Japan. Her reputation as a bodyguard in the city was such that most criminals didn't even contemplate attacking someone she was protecting. So instead Dandy enjoyed a quiet supper with the daughter of his heart.
Ayisha and Bianca had supper with Doc Cummings, who was his normal, friendly yet outrageous self. Ayishu could see the telltale signs of the onset of the final stage of Chimera Bite in Doc's face, but said nothing, affecting the cheerful mood that was the tempo of their dinner.
Onboard the Midnight Curse, Vu and Qui had made a repast for Safa and Tamra that would have been the dictionary definition of sumptuous in any setting. The Vietnamese young ladies had made tartines so delicious that they would have made Captain James weep if he'd only known that all he had to do to have one was return to his airship for supper. As luck would have it, Vietnamese was one of the grab bag of languages that Safa spoke, and it was the only language that Qui spoke, so the four ladies had a delightful conversation during and after dinner.
Somewhere along the eastern shores of the Lost Continent, Kisu was studying the colors of the fire before her, occasionally tossing in different colored powders and observing their reactions.
Somewhere east of the Cook Islands, a Mediterranean woman and a Polynesian woman were island hopping their way to Central America, with their plot carefully designed to take them north of the Lost Continent. A makeshift distillery in the cargo area of the aeroplane ensured that the aeroplane, modified to land on the water, would make it to Central America. Afterr Central America, their plans became a little hazy but, considering all they had survived so far, they weren't worried.
And just outside the women's bathroom in the Mathematics Department, two doctoral students in the University's small but thriving physics department were waiting to meet an airship captain to discover if a young janitorial worker was the female version of a Horatio Algers character.
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