You mind your tongue!โ โOh, I do,โ I said. โI sharpen it every evening on your name.
Franny BillingsleyPerhaps you should put your head down.โ I knew this was the thing to do, although Iโve never fainted and I donโt intend to.
Franny BillingsleyI should hate to be a regular girl with a sugar-plum voice. I should hate to have swan-like lashes, and a thick, sooty neck. I sound as though Iโm joking, I know, but I should truly hate to be like Leanne, so charming and ordinary and stuffed with clichรฉd feelings. Iโm glad Iโm the ice maiden. Who wants to be crying over every stray dog? Not I. Scratch my surface and what do you see? More surface.
Franny BillingsleyWe laughed a lot and I grew warmer still, lovely and warm. I do realize that some of that warmth was due to the wine, but there was much more to it than that. There are two distinct aspects to Communion wine: one aspect is the wine itself, the other is the idea of communion. Wine is certainly warming, but communion is a great deal more so.
Franny BillingsleyI have some questions about betrayal,โ I said. โThink about this: A person who calls you his best friend, and says he has dinner plans with you, goes off with a beautiful woman, saying heโll be back directly, then makes you wait half an hour because heโs kissing the woman in the alley. Is that betrayal?โ โOh, Lord.โ Eldric tossed back his wine.
Franny Billingsley