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"You have a beautiful aura," Roshi had said. "I can see it--it's so beautiful."
But that was only what he said--he who was a liar, a thief, a corrupt man of the night. Things that came from his mouth could not wisely be trusted, and the things that he did could not be repeated. Joey wouldn't allow himself to be fooled by the others' deceptions; he wouldn't allow himself to be fooled by anyone, anymore.
There was a certain amount of a strange air that coated his being that made him different from the other men that she had seen before. He was fascinating; he was sophisticated. He was responsible and handsome and intriguing. She would love to spend the rest of her life with someone like that.
"A historic masterpiece."
"A divine piece that will surely have its place in these walls."
"To whoever made this work--well done!"
He sat behind the curtains, hidden from the spectator's view. A coward he was, a coward he was not--he wasn't sure, and neither was his uncle because his uncle claimed that he was a scaredy-cat and a courageous lion merged into one.
Why was he even hiding? The people loved his work.
A welt resided on his arm. Miss. Kelburg could see it as plain as day underneath his damp shirt. How difficult.
Miss. Kelburg hoped Steven's home life wasn't as bad as her's had been. Neither her father nor her mother ever raised a hand against her; it was always her brother with Mr. and Mrs. Kelburg. She had witnessed first-hand what people were capable of doing to children and since she left Iowa in the dust as soon as she turned sixteen with her brother (who was eighteen), she had been adamant about stopping child abuse and neglect.
And now, nine years after becoming a teacher for West Diamond Junior High School, she thought she had one. One of them. If her eyes were telling her the truth--and God forbid they be doing so--it would be an awful experience for him.
Better to stop the fire now rather than allow it to fester.
"She's wilting," Joey whispered to me one humid summer afternoon. "Ole Willow's wilting."
Of course, Ole Willow wasn't really wilting. She wasn't wilting as a daisy wilts after its gardener forgets to water it after a few days, nor was she wilting as someone of a broken heart does. But I knew what Joey meant. He meant that an ending--an ending to what, I have no idea--was upon us. There was some kind of new era just on the horizon, and Joey and I would watch that new era envelop us a few hours later in either rays of opportunity or clouds of misfortune. We would watch as the sun rose over the hill (and on top of it, Ole Willow) and we would hold one another's hands and we would hope, as we did each time something foreign happened in our lands, and we would stand our ground until we fell and became one with the earth.
The news went national soon enough. At first Jeremy thought that no one would listen to Lisa Marie, but he was quickly proven wrong. The "crazy girl next girl" new how to tell a lie.
He was scared. He was scared for himself, and scared for Jonathan. They had done nothing that was wrong in any way(or that's what he kept telling himself) and they didn't deserve to have the police knocking on their down and to be taken in for questioning.
Lisa Marie was a liar. It had always been that way for as long as he could remember. Jeremy had even warned Johnathan about her when he first moved into Mugwump, and the two had taken a few precautions to avoid her when they were causing their daily mischief. Unfortunately they had gotten caught and Lisa Marie thought it wise to make their little prank public.
'Cause that's all it was. A prank. Jeremy had no idea why the police were treating everything so seriously. Perhaps it was they who needed to get their sanity tested.
"All things in nature are worthwhile," she whispered to me as we sat underneath the tree. "The only difference between something that looks as though it's significant and something that looks as if though my Uncle Rowy painted it while drunk off of rum is what we make it.
The wealth was enough to get to anyone's head, she supposed, but she knew in her heart that her father wouldn't have done anything differently if he had been in her position. Or she told herself that. If she stopped thinking that he would have supported her no matter what then she would lose face and would become "another servant girl under King Ko"--and she couldn't bare to let that happen. Let Joseph lead the Rebels into a fight, let them die. She would sit on her throne and not make a sound.
The turkey was wrapped tightly in the ham and cheese in preparation of Father's homecoming. It was, according to Mother, his favorite snack and something that he had personally requested her to make when he returned. She told me this in such a way that I knew there was something that I wasn't getting--that I couldn't get without further information--about his choice that Mother wasn't telling me, but I didn't care. I had never been close to him; he had always been so distant and far away with me (though he was, according to Johnathan, much warmer with his sons) that I had eventually chosen to act the same with him.
If you are not so very careful the he would show you his wrath. The wrath of the gods, some said; but only some. The king's wrath to the rebels was like a backstroke to the face: swift and quick, meaning that it would never totally bring them down. If King Charles the Whateverith wanted to send his troops into the Dark Forest where they would undoubtedly get lost, then so be it. Anna knew that Keyston would be waiting with bow in hand to strike the enemy down.
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