On the Eighth day of
Christmas the Floozies Gave to Me…Eight Minutes Peace
Anne glance
up (for once) at the diminutive Draco Disciple and tax collector, Vinz Clortho.
“Heaven forbid you’d ever catch me breaking the law?”
“And why
would someone like you break the law?” Vinz questioned, peering over his round
spectacles.
“I don’t
see how this is relevant to the occasion.” Anne avoided the question and looked
to the floozies for assistance.
“Well,” Roxy Coxcomb drew a long
puff from her pipe. “I think it’s a criminal offense to not be having any fun
on Christmas.”
“Does Andrew want to have some
fun?” Jezebel added, wiggling her…eyebrows.
Vinz frowned, but as the floozies
proceeded to crack jokes about Anne’s supposed lack of experience and teaching
the “lad” a thing or two, he slunk off to rejoin his fellow Dracos.
“That was nearly a disaster.” Anne
sighed.
“It’s not quite over yet luv.”
Chastity tilted her head towards a fairly irate Captain Frobisher.
“Can you distract him?” Anne
pleaded. “I’m not going to make it through the night if the captain finds out.”
“Come with me,” Roxy brushed off
her skirts and wrapped an arm around Anne’s waist. “I’m sure they’ll stop
talkin’ now.”
Upstairs the din of the party was
barely muffled. Anne could make out the sound of the Captains different laughs
and the tunes that the Bristol Buskin Frolic was playing. She and Roxy sat in
silence, waiting for a long enough time to pass before they went down among the
party again. It'd been at least eight minutes.
“Any word of Fanny?” Anne asked
from by the window, looking at the snow falling gently on the streets of
Bristol.
“Nothing new,” Roxy sat of the edge
of the bed. “Sorry dear.”
“S’alright.” Anne shrugged. “So how
long do we need to stay up here before people will believe my lie again?”
Fin.
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