[ Did she? Effie whipped out her powder case to fluff at her nose and stall for time.
What was there to head back to, really? A room full of strangers she didn't know or especially care to know? Her colleague and tributes who were less than enthused by her arrival and avoided her when possible?
Saul's smile was so broad and warm and she felt good for the first time since arrival. Dinner had been nice and she was a little buzzed now and felt a strange sense of calm and anxiety, knowing that this little slice of near normalcy was soon to end and that this was likely the closest she could ever get to the way things had been. ]
I don't know, do I?
[ She looked at him from over the golden compact rim, brow raised coyly. ]
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What was there to head back to, really? A room full of strangers she didn't know or especially care to know? Her colleague and tributes who were less than enthused by her arrival and avoided her when possible?
Saul's smile was so broad and warm and she felt good for the first time since arrival. Dinner had been nice and she was a little buzzed now and felt a strange sense of calm and anxiety, knowing that this little slice of near normalcy was soon to end and that this was likely the closest she could ever get to the way things had been. ]
I don't know, do I?
[ She looked at him from over the golden compact rim, brow raised coyly. ]