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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 2863882" data-attributes="member: 63"><p><strong>Session Eleven, part one</strong></p><p></p><p>It’s late in the evening, and rain is pouring intensely as the two cars approach Savannah, Georgia. They’re the only cars on the road. It’s been a long trip, and eventually Robert got tired of the quiet in Nathan’s BMW, so now he’s in Balthazaar’s van with Scarpedin. John is in Nathan’s car, a few hundred feet ahead of the van.</p><p></p><p>John spots someone on the side of the interstate, standing placidly in the rain, holding something the size of a grapefruit in his left hand, and with his right hand extended, thumb out for a ride. Nathan suggests stopping to pick him up, but when they get closer John recognizes the man – a Japanese man in a soaked business suit, holding a huge toad; it must be Wiji-wiji.</p><p></p><p>“Just keep going,” John says wearily. “Trust me.”</p><p></p><p>Wiji-wiji smiles and waves at them as they go past, then holds out his hand for the next vehicle.</p><p></p><p>Scarpedin spots someone on the side of the interstate, and he wonders if they’re about to get attacked. Then he recognizes Wiji-wiji, and yells for Robert. Robert looks and immediately tells Balthazaar to stop. The van pulls to a wary stop, and Robert opens the sliding door on the side.</p><p></p><p>“Goingu my way?” Wiji-wiji asks.</p><p></p><p> </p><p><em> Rain, rain, rain, a wicked rain</em></p><p><em>Falling from the sky</em></p><p><em>Down, down, down, pouring down</em></p><p><em>Upon the night.</em></p><p><em>Well there's just one chance in a million</em></p><p><em>That someday we'll make it out alive.</em></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">“Wicked Rain” – Los Lobos</p><p></p><p> </p><p>“Yo, Weej!” Robert says.</p><p></p><p>Despite not trusting the Japanese fey at all, and despite realizing that the toad in Wiji-wiji’s hand is a dried, dessicated corpse, he waves for the man to get inside.</p><p></p><p>However, a heated debate breaks out among Robert, Scarpedin, and Balthazaar about who the man is (a Japanese fey), how they know him (he gave us turkey legs and golfed with us at a Ren Fest), and why they trust him now (oh, we don’t, but he’s still fun). Wiji-wiji waits calmly in the rain, a smile on his face the whole time, until finally an agreement is reached.</p><p></p><p>“Okay,” Scarpedin says, “you can come with us, but you gotta leave the frog.”</p><p></p><p>Wiji-wiji nods in understanding, and he sets the frog down on the side of the road. It suddenly swells with life, as if the rain had fixed its dehydrated (and dead) state, and it hops away into the night.</p><p></p><p>“Shank you werry much,” he says. “Rucky you guys came arong.”</p><p></p><p>He gets into the van, glances at Robert and Scarpedin, and for a moment his smile falters. But then it comes back as full as ever. Robert notes this, but says nothing and slides the side door shut. They drive off.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">* * *</p><p></p><p>The Savannah office is the main branch of the Bureau for the Management of Magicks in the United States. Most of its facilities are on Gaia, however, and the current staff on Terra numbers only about thirty. Most of their analysts and diviners are on Gaia, and they have been out of touch for two weeks now.</p><p></p><p>Jenny Windgrave is the third highest-ranking Knight of the American branch, a field agent, not trained to direct the logistics of a nation-wide police force devoted to concealing the existence of magic to the general public. Her greatest advantage so far has been that most magic-users haven’t wanted to press their luck yet, so she has been able to respond to the few incidents, even though the Bureau’s response time is much slower than usual. The Bureau is not in its finest form, Jenny is stressed, and while most of the staff like her, she has never been in a command role before, and she knows they don’t quite respect her authority.</p><p></p><p>She needs these next few hours to go well. The people who helped the New Orleans office get on its feet just pulled into the parking garage, and judging by the report Raine filed, they don’t respect authority much either. She <em>needs</em> their help, so she has to make sure they feel comfortable and that they have a reason to help her.</p><p></p><p>The first signs don’t look so good. She’s watching and listening to a live security camera view of events in the foyer of the Bureau’s office building. The group has just arrived, and already they’re balking at having to write their names in the book at the front desk. Jenny says a quick prayer, then cocks her head, smiles to her ghost, and says she’d appreciate his help too.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">* * *</p><p></p><p>The discussion from the parking deck to the sign-in desk was heated. John wants nothing to do with Wiji-wiji, suspecting he might have been responsible for them getting attacked in the first place. Scarpedin is nervous around the fey, but is getting a kick out of his ‘Engrish.’ Robert says that he feels like Wiji helped them, and that while he doesn’t trust the man, they can safely keep him around to see what he has to say, because if none of them trust him, he won’t catch them off guard. Of course, what Robert <em>doesn’t</em> say is that he wants to find out if Wiji-wiji has some sort of sway over him on account of the ‘gift’ of the turkey leg back at the Ren Fest.</p><p></p><p>Nathan doesn’t like Wiji-wiji much. When he tried to read the man and see if he was a danger, he just got a head-ache, and flashes of a strange, bleak landscape where fey danced and wailed in the air. Balthazaar says that, if nothing else, the Bureau will want to know what he wants.</p><p></p><p>The whole time, Wiji-wiji smiles, and when Robert finally just asks him what he wants, he smiles even wider and bows in appreciation.</p><p></p><p>“I have a fava’ to asku you, Robato-<em>san. Demo,</em> I do not wanchu say what in puburicu. <em>Sumimasen</em>. It is nothing dangerousu, though.”</p><p></p><p>“Is it okay if the Bureau asks you a few questions?” Robert asks.</p><p></p><p>“<em>Hai</em>.”</p><p></p><p>Robert says, “See, he’ll behave. Now hopefully they’ll have a few board games to keep him occupied while we’re here.”</p><p></p><p>“<em>Scrabburu</em>,” Wiji-wiji says. “Werry good gamu.”</p><p></p><p>They head into the Bureau office building and give the front guard a bit of a hard time. John is disappointed that there’s not more security, but Balthazaar assures them it’s there, just not apparent. Eventually they stop causing a hassle just for the sake of causing a hassle, and they sign in, take the elevator, and go to meet the acting head of the American Bureau, Jenny Windgrave.</p><p></p><p>The elevator doors open, revealing a welcome group. Jenny Windgrave, a gorgeous Native American woman in a white suit (Scarpedin remembers seeing an interview with the voice actress who played Pocahontas in the Disney movie – <a href="http://www.jannagraber.com/irene_bedard_celebrity_profile.htm" target="_blank">Irene Bedard</a> – and thinks she looks like her) greets them, then introduces them to her lead staff – Mr. Luckshore, a data analyst and expert on magic; Mr. Fitzgerald, a Warka (sorta like an African orc) who is in charge of field ops; and a man she simply calls Tagin, their computer specialist.</p><p></p><p>Jenny chats with Balthazaar for a moment, saying it’s good to see him again, then invites the rest of them to meet with her in a conference room, where they can get them some refreshments and get down to business. Wiji-wiji has mysteriously begun to refuse to speak in anything but Japanese, so she calls for a translator and some fey specialists to make sure they don’t do anything that could offend a potentially powerful kami.</p><p></p><p>Jenny is friendly and charming, but not quite the leader type the group expected. However, she seems to have a handle on the situation, and after just talking to them for a few minutes she has a good sense of what they are interested in, and what she needs to offer them to get their help. She talks to Terry with her own ghost as an intermediary, and treats him as a person, not a tool. She has a bit of a hard time with John, who seems to be acting recalcitrant as if he’s on a crusade of bitterness, so she doesn’t waste much effort trying to sway him.</p><p></p><p>From John’s responses, Jenny can tell he doesn’t like the idea of the Bureau at all. She can sympathize with him – when she first started she wasn’t comfortable with the idea of keeping secrets, erasing memories, and spreading lies – but she’s seen the danger of magic, and she knows that the Bureau is the best group of people to handle it. She just hopes John will change his mind when he has more experience with magic.</p><p></p><p>Jenny tells the group that the Bureau will devote its resources to getting to the bottom of who was after Terry and the rest of them, and how it ties in with the separation of Terra and Gaia. She offers Nathan aid from the Bureau to help him resolve his visions. She promises that, once they can get in touch with the office on Gaia and get the necessary people they’ll be able to clear any unwanted police attention from the group’s records, which pleases Robert and Scarpedin. She also offers John the services of the archives division to translate the two books he got from the secret keeper in New Orleans. Then she asks if they need anything else.</p><p></p><p>“Sort of a longshot,” Robert says, “but can you bring Terry back from the dead?”</p><p></p><p>Jenny shakes her head sadly. “Not after this long. A few healers have the power to possibly bring someone back who died within a few minutes, maybe even a day, but the toll on them is great. No magic can bring someone back after longer than that.”</p><p></p><p>“Sh*t,” Scarpedin says, “what about the Holy Grail?”</p><p></p><p>Jenny smiles at the quaint story. “It’s just a legend, a metaphor for healing and a restoration of the old days, just like Excalibur was a metaphor for the masculine authority of the king. Yes, according to some rumors the grail has that power, but the Bureau is a over hundred years old, and we have never found any conclusive evidence for its existence.”</p><p></p><p>“Excalibur was real,” Scarpedin says. He holds out his hand. “It was about, oh, yay long, or yay long when it was activated. Normally it was just, y’know, a hilt, but when Arthur used it, it had a whole sword of sunlight. Made killing vampires a hell of a lot easier.”</p><p></p><p>Jenny blinks, then smiles.</p><p></p><p>“What is it?” Robert asks.</p><p></p><p>“I was just reminded of a friend of mine,” Jenny says. “He was a little insane too.”</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">* * *</p><p></p><p>Nathan excuses himself, saying he has to pursue a vision he had, and after making sure Jenny doesn’t need them, John goes with him. Robert, Scarpedin, Balthazaar, and Wiji-wiji stay at the Bureau office with Jenny as she makes the necessary arrangements. Terry needs about a day to attune to the area so he can planeshift to Gaia, and Jenny is confident she’ll have enough resources available by then.</p><p></p><p>She has no idea whether the Bureau on Gaia will be in any condition to help immediately. The last reports before the two worlds were cut off, over two weeks ago, was that the main office had been attacked, so Jenny intends to go in with a half-dozen field agents, heavily-armed with full defenses. The Bureau office on Gaia is huge, scattered at the base of a giant magical tree, and in some parts extending to its boughs, so it might be a bit of a grind to get through if things are in a bad state.</p><p></p><p>Different people play Scrabble with Wiji-wiji, and Robert fills Jenny in on the story with the Japanese man. He can’t help but like Jenny. She’s attractive, has a good sense of humor about the fact that magic is real and she has to deal with it for a living, and still seems like a normal person, not obsessed with her work. Still, she looks stressed, and Robert wonders if he could help her take a load off her shoulders. After a long conversation, apparently about business, but with an undertone of growing fondness, Jenny excuses herself to take some calls coming in from other offices.</p><p></p><p>Scarpedin chooses that moment to come over and tell Robert he’s taking too long, and that he’s being timid. When Jenny comes back, Scarpedin winks to Robert, then turns to Jenny.</p><p></p><p>“Hey, um, where’s the coffee room?” he asks.</p><p></p><p>She points down the hall and gives directions.</p><p></p><p>“Y’know, I’m not sure I’ll be able to find that, and I don’t make coffee too much. Could you show me the way?”</p><p></p><p>Jenny is a little put off, but she nods and agrees. She tells Robert she’ll be right back.</p><p></p><p>Two minutes later, Scarpedin comes back in, looking a little pissed. A minute later Jenny returns, looking exasperated. Robert overhears her telling some aide to hurry up and get the group a hotel room so they can get out of the office. Robert heads over, not quite sure if he’s concerned, or if he’s taking advantage of an opening.</p><p></p><p>Quietly he asks, “What’s wrong?”</p><p></p><p>Jenny looks away. “Your friend, Scarpedin. . . .” She bites her lip. “He’s a bit of an *sshole.”</p><p></p><p>Robert grimaces. “What did he do?”</p><p></p><p>She gestures for him to follow, apparently not wanting to bring it up in public. She takes him to the staff lounge on the other side of the office floor. She starts to explain how Scarpedin was a bit rudely forceful as he made a pass at her, and Robert listens as he casually closes the door to the lounge.</p><p></p><p>Then, in his smoothest voice ever, Robert says, “No, don’t tell me. Show me what he did. Here, ah, . . . I’ll be you, okay, and you do whatever it was that Scarpedin did, okay?”</p><p></p><p>Jenny’s demeanor changes suddenly from irritated to amused. She grins a bit, then uses her hands to make sure Robert’s in the right position as she comes up behind him and turns him to face her. Pressing herself against him, Jenny leans in and kisses him. That’s where the reenactment breaks down, and they kiss for nearly a minute.</p><p></p><p>Jenny pulls away, looking a bit embarrassed. Robert smiles, feigning embarrassment too.</p><p></p><p>“Um, Jenny,” he says, holding up a hand to keep her from leaving, “I think you have my gum.”</p><p></p><p>Jenny stops, nods, and pulls Robert’s gum out of her mouth. She smoothly hands it back to him, then readjusts her suit as she leaves the room.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 2863882, member: 63"] [b]Session Eleven, part one[/b] It’s late in the evening, and rain is pouring intensely as the two cars approach Savannah, Georgia. They’re the only cars on the road. It’s been a long trip, and eventually Robert got tired of the quiet in Nathan’s BMW, so now he’s in Balthazaar’s van with Scarpedin. John is in Nathan’s car, a few hundred feet ahead of the van. John spots someone on the side of the interstate, standing placidly in the rain, holding something the size of a grapefruit in his left hand, and with his right hand extended, thumb out for a ride. Nathan suggests stopping to pick him up, but when they get closer John recognizes the man – a Japanese man in a soaked business suit, holding a huge toad; it must be Wiji-wiji. “Just keep going,” John says wearily. “Trust me.” Wiji-wiji smiles and waves at them as they go past, then holds out his hand for the next vehicle. Scarpedin spots someone on the side of the interstate, and he wonders if they’re about to get attacked. Then he recognizes Wiji-wiji, and yells for Robert. Robert looks and immediately tells Balthazaar to stop. The van pulls to a wary stop, and Robert opens the sliding door on the side. “Goingu my way?” Wiji-wiji asks. [i] Rain, rain, rain, a wicked rain Falling from the sky Down, down, down, pouring down Upon the night. Well there's just one chance in a million That someday we'll make it out alive.[/i] [indent]“Wicked Rain” – Los Lobos[/indent] “Yo, Weej!” Robert says. Despite not trusting the Japanese fey at all, and despite realizing that the toad in Wiji-wiji’s hand is a dried, dessicated corpse, he waves for the man to get inside. However, a heated debate breaks out among Robert, Scarpedin, and Balthazaar about who the man is (a Japanese fey), how they know him (he gave us turkey legs and golfed with us at a Ren Fest), and why they trust him now (oh, we don’t, but he’s still fun). Wiji-wiji waits calmly in the rain, a smile on his face the whole time, until finally an agreement is reached. “Okay,” Scarpedin says, “you can come with us, but you gotta leave the frog.” Wiji-wiji nods in understanding, and he sets the frog down on the side of the road. It suddenly swells with life, as if the rain had fixed its dehydrated (and dead) state, and it hops away into the night. “Shank you werry much,” he says. “Rucky you guys came arong.” He gets into the van, glances at Robert and Scarpedin, and for a moment his smile falters. But then it comes back as full as ever. Robert notes this, but says nothing and slides the side door shut. They drive off. [center]* * *[/center] The Savannah office is the main branch of the Bureau for the Management of Magicks in the United States. Most of its facilities are on Gaia, however, and the current staff on Terra numbers only about thirty. Most of their analysts and diviners are on Gaia, and they have been out of touch for two weeks now. Jenny Windgrave is the third highest-ranking Knight of the American branch, a field agent, not trained to direct the logistics of a nation-wide police force devoted to concealing the existence of magic to the general public. Her greatest advantage so far has been that most magic-users haven’t wanted to press their luck yet, so she has been able to respond to the few incidents, even though the Bureau’s response time is much slower than usual. The Bureau is not in its finest form, Jenny is stressed, and while most of the staff like her, she has never been in a command role before, and she knows they don’t quite respect her authority. She needs these next few hours to go well. The people who helped the New Orleans office get on its feet just pulled into the parking garage, and judging by the report Raine filed, they don’t respect authority much either. She [i]needs[/i] their help, so she has to make sure they feel comfortable and that they have a reason to help her. The first signs don’t look so good. She’s watching and listening to a live security camera view of events in the foyer of the Bureau’s office building. The group has just arrived, and already they’re balking at having to write their names in the book at the front desk. Jenny says a quick prayer, then cocks her head, smiles to her ghost, and says she’d appreciate his help too. [center]* * *[/center] The discussion from the parking deck to the sign-in desk was heated. John wants nothing to do with Wiji-wiji, suspecting he might have been responsible for them getting attacked in the first place. Scarpedin is nervous around the fey, but is getting a kick out of his ‘Engrish.’ Robert says that he feels like Wiji helped them, and that while he doesn’t trust the man, they can safely keep him around to see what he has to say, because if none of them trust him, he won’t catch them off guard. Of course, what Robert [i]doesn’t[/i] say is that he wants to find out if Wiji-wiji has some sort of sway over him on account of the ‘gift’ of the turkey leg back at the Ren Fest. Nathan doesn’t like Wiji-wiji much. When he tried to read the man and see if he was a danger, he just got a head-ache, and flashes of a strange, bleak landscape where fey danced and wailed in the air. Balthazaar says that, if nothing else, the Bureau will want to know what he wants. The whole time, Wiji-wiji smiles, and when Robert finally just asks him what he wants, he smiles even wider and bows in appreciation. “I have a fava’ to asku you, Robato-[i]san. Demo,[/i] I do not wanchu say what in puburicu. [i]Sumimasen[/i]. It is nothing dangerousu, though.” “Is it okay if the Bureau asks you a few questions?” Robert asks. “[i]Hai[/i].” Robert says, “See, he’ll behave. Now hopefully they’ll have a few board games to keep him occupied while we’re here.” “[i]Scrabburu[/i],” Wiji-wiji says. “Werry good gamu.” They head into the Bureau office building and give the front guard a bit of a hard time. John is disappointed that there’s not more security, but Balthazaar assures them it’s there, just not apparent. Eventually they stop causing a hassle just for the sake of causing a hassle, and they sign in, take the elevator, and go to meet the acting head of the American Bureau, Jenny Windgrave. The elevator doors open, revealing a welcome group. Jenny Windgrave, a gorgeous Native American woman in a white suit (Scarpedin remembers seeing an interview with the voice actress who played Pocahontas in the Disney movie – [url=http://www.jannagraber.com/irene_bedard_celebrity_profile.htm]Irene Bedard[/url] – and thinks she looks like her) greets them, then introduces them to her lead staff – Mr. Luckshore, a data analyst and expert on magic; Mr. Fitzgerald, a Warka (sorta like an African orc) who is in charge of field ops; and a man she simply calls Tagin, their computer specialist. Jenny chats with Balthazaar for a moment, saying it’s good to see him again, then invites the rest of them to meet with her in a conference room, where they can get them some refreshments and get down to business. Wiji-wiji has mysteriously begun to refuse to speak in anything but Japanese, so she calls for a translator and some fey specialists to make sure they don’t do anything that could offend a potentially powerful kami. Jenny is friendly and charming, but not quite the leader type the group expected. However, she seems to have a handle on the situation, and after just talking to them for a few minutes she has a good sense of what they are interested in, and what she needs to offer them to get their help. She talks to Terry with her own ghost as an intermediary, and treats him as a person, not a tool. She has a bit of a hard time with John, who seems to be acting recalcitrant as if he’s on a crusade of bitterness, so she doesn’t waste much effort trying to sway him. From John’s responses, Jenny can tell he doesn’t like the idea of the Bureau at all. She can sympathize with him – when she first started she wasn’t comfortable with the idea of keeping secrets, erasing memories, and spreading lies – but she’s seen the danger of magic, and she knows that the Bureau is the best group of people to handle it. She just hopes John will change his mind when he has more experience with magic. Jenny tells the group that the Bureau will devote its resources to getting to the bottom of who was after Terry and the rest of them, and how it ties in with the separation of Terra and Gaia. She offers Nathan aid from the Bureau to help him resolve his visions. She promises that, once they can get in touch with the office on Gaia and get the necessary people they’ll be able to clear any unwanted police attention from the group’s records, which pleases Robert and Scarpedin. She also offers John the services of the archives division to translate the two books he got from the secret keeper in New Orleans. Then she asks if they need anything else. “Sort of a longshot,” Robert says, “but can you bring Terry back from the dead?” Jenny shakes her head sadly. “Not after this long. A few healers have the power to possibly bring someone back who died within a few minutes, maybe even a day, but the toll on them is great. No magic can bring someone back after longer than that.” “Sh*t,” Scarpedin says, “what about the Holy Grail?” Jenny smiles at the quaint story. “It’s just a legend, a metaphor for healing and a restoration of the old days, just like Excalibur was a metaphor for the masculine authority of the king. Yes, according to some rumors the grail has that power, but the Bureau is a over hundred years old, and we have never found any conclusive evidence for its existence.” “Excalibur was real,” Scarpedin says. He holds out his hand. “It was about, oh, yay long, or yay long when it was activated. Normally it was just, y’know, a hilt, but when Arthur used it, it had a whole sword of sunlight. Made killing vampires a hell of a lot easier.” Jenny blinks, then smiles. “What is it?” Robert asks. “I was just reminded of a friend of mine,” Jenny says. “He was a little insane too.” [center]* * *[/center] Nathan excuses himself, saying he has to pursue a vision he had, and after making sure Jenny doesn’t need them, John goes with him. Robert, Scarpedin, Balthazaar, and Wiji-wiji stay at the Bureau office with Jenny as she makes the necessary arrangements. Terry needs about a day to attune to the area so he can planeshift to Gaia, and Jenny is confident she’ll have enough resources available by then. She has no idea whether the Bureau on Gaia will be in any condition to help immediately. The last reports before the two worlds were cut off, over two weeks ago, was that the main office had been attacked, so Jenny intends to go in with a half-dozen field agents, heavily-armed with full defenses. The Bureau office on Gaia is huge, scattered at the base of a giant magical tree, and in some parts extending to its boughs, so it might be a bit of a grind to get through if things are in a bad state. Different people play Scrabble with Wiji-wiji, and Robert fills Jenny in on the story with the Japanese man. He can’t help but like Jenny. She’s attractive, has a good sense of humor about the fact that magic is real and she has to deal with it for a living, and still seems like a normal person, not obsessed with her work. Still, she looks stressed, and Robert wonders if he could help her take a load off her shoulders. After a long conversation, apparently about business, but with an undertone of growing fondness, Jenny excuses herself to take some calls coming in from other offices. Scarpedin chooses that moment to come over and tell Robert he’s taking too long, and that he’s being timid. When Jenny comes back, Scarpedin winks to Robert, then turns to Jenny. “Hey, um, where’s the coffee room?” he asks. She points down the hall and gives directions. “Y’know, I’m not sure I’ll be able to find that, and I don’t make coffee too much. Could you show me the way?” Jenny is a little put off, but she nods and agrees. She tells Robert she’ll be right back. Two minutes later, Scarpedin comes back in, looking a little pissed. A minute later Jenny returns, looking exasperated. Robert overhears her telling some aide to hurry up and get the group a hotel room so they can get out of the office. Robert heads over, not quite sure if he’s concerned, or if he’s taking advantage of an opening. Quietly he asks, “What’s wrong?” Jenny looks away. “Your friend, Scarpedin. . . .” She bites her lip. “He’s a bit of an *sshole.” Robert grimaces. “What did he do?” She gestures for him to follow, apparently not wanting to bring it up in public. She takes him to the staff lounge on the other side of the office floor. She starts to explain how Scarpedin was a bit rudely forceful as he made a pass at her, and Robert listens as he casually closes the door to the lounge. Then, in his smoothest voice ever, Robert says, “No, don’t tell me. Show me what he did. Here, ah, . . . I’ll be you, okay, and you do whatever it was that Scarpedin did, okay?” Jenny’s demeanor changes suddenly from irritated to amused. She grins a bit, then uses her hands to make sure Robert’s in the right position as she comes up behind him and turns him to face her. Pressing herself against him, Jenny leans in and kisses him. That’s where the reenactment breaks down, and they kiss for nearly a minute. Jenny pulls away, looking a bit embarrassed. Robert smiles, feigning embarrassment too. “Um, Jenny,” he says, holding up a hand to keep her from leaving, “I think you have my gum.” Jenny stops, nods, and pulls Robert’s gum out of her mouth. She smoothly hands it back to him, then readjusts her suit as she leaves the room. [/QUOTE]
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