"Strong allies." Trinket pondered this for a long, silent moment. Then she gave the tiniest nod. "I have an ally."
She held her doll straight out with both hands. The doll remained motionless, its black eyes continuing to gaze into Sah's.
Meanwhile, the rest of Trinket's attention wavered, as she desired once again to find a way to make the restaurant more interesting. Without looking up or taking her eyes from Sah's, she gave a command to one of the wooden chandeliers overhead: sway.
The small chandelier started swaying back and forth on its rope. It could have just been the wind. But the movement was enough to make the candles on the chandelier drip, their hot wax spilling down onto the floor and tables below. A woman yelped when some wax dripped onto her arm--not so hot as to burn her, but certainly enough to give her a start. Trinket didn't watch the minor bit of chaos the chandelier caused, not directly. She kept her gaze on Sah. But in the back of her mind she was cataloguing everything, noting each person's reaction, the tone of the woman's shriek, the way the nearby customers looked warily up at the chandelier.
When they were sitting and eating, these people had been boring. But now they were starting to become interesting.
She held her doll straight out with both hands. The doll remained motionless, its black eyes continuing to gaze into Sah's.
Meanwhile, the rest of Trinket's attention wavered, as she desired once again to find a way to make the restaurant more interesting. Without looking up or taking her eyes from Sah's, she gave a command to one of the wooden chandeliers overhead: sway.
The small chandelier started swaying back and forth on its rope. It could have just been the wind. But the movement was enough to make the candles on the chandelier drip, their hot wax spilling down onto the floor and tables below. A woman yelped when some wax dripped onto her arm--not so hot as to burn her, but certainly enough to give her a start. Trinket didn't watch the minor bit of chaos the chandelier caused, not directly. She kept her gaze on Sah. But in the back of her mind she was cataloguing everything, noting each person's reaction, the tone of the woman's shriek, the way the nearby customers looked warily up at the chandelier.
When they were sitting and eating, these people had been boring. But now they were starting to become interesting.
