My Flight-Departure Gambit
three grotesque human figures- and her boyfriend Dennis
- a single powerful bite
- It’ll be a great workout
- Brooklyn Bridge costume
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My flight-departure gambit was having no effect on the torchlit baccanal in the temple hut, so I switched to the direct approach.
“Tessa! We need to go now!”
She wrenched her face away from Jove’s and glared at me. Reflected in her eyes were three grotesque human figures and her boyfriend Dennis from her undercover days after Academy. I blinked, realizing that the fourth shadowy reflection was in fact my own, with Jason’s appearing as an uncanny echo. Dennis was long dead.
“Come on!” I beseeched her upside-down face. “We have to get out of here.”
But she shook her head, her hair flaring like a poodle skirt from her inverted scalp. “I have my own way out. But you should take John, if you can pry him loose from Carla.” She resumed kissing Jove, her passion so great it seemed she would devour his head in a single powerful bite.
“Let’s drag John out of here,” Jason lisped with a shrug. When my expression fell, he added, “It’ll be a great workout.”
It was strenuous, but nothing about it was great. All of us were slippery and Carla didn’t want to let John leave. In thrall to the aphrodisiac Jove gave her, she didn’t want to let any of us leave. Jason showed himself fully willing and able to take advantage of this, so I secured John in a headlock and she welcomed Jason in exchange.
“Aunt Xylona! We’re on our way!” I shouted while John strained to escape my grasp. I passed backwards through the slats covering the door of the hut, feeling as foolish as the Statue of Liberty wearing a Brooklyn Bridge costume.
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