But not all scars showed, did they?
What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.
Marriage and especially the ceremony which announces it, the wedding... That is how we say to the world, 'These two are now a family, and with this joining our families are joined, too. And you had damned well better respect that.
Religion turned some folks belligerent.
Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?
She had of course, kept working. He liked to think she would have moved under the table to continue her task if a gun battle had broken out, but he wasn't sure.