So proper for a circus girl," Mme. Padva says with with a gleam in her eye. "We shall have to loosen those corset laces if we intend to keep you an intimate dinner company." "I expected the corset unlacing would take place after dinner," Celia says mildly, earning a chorus of laughter. "We shall keep Miss Bowen as intimate company regardless of the state of her corset," Chandresh says. "Make a note of that," he adds, waving a hand at Marco. "Miss Bowen's corset is duly noted, sir," Marco replies, and the laghter bubbles over the table again.

They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.

You're in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that's enough.

Is it not that bad to be trapped somewhere, then? Depending on where you're trapped?" "I suppose it depends on how much you like the place you're trapped in," Widget says. "And how much you like whoever you're stuck there with," Poppet adds, kicking his black boot with her white one.

Trespassers Will Be Exsanguinated.

It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.

If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.