Tatiana Gestured For Magnus
I am really creeped out by- the safest ever built
- the crowd wore black towels in lieu of formalwear
- never occurred to me to wonder
- If Axl Rose showed up to rent an apartment from you
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Tatiana gestured for Magnus to get closer, closer, for increased skin contact. No sensible person would want Magnus, and his cufflinks, anywhere near the site of new life’s emergence into the world. If Axl Rose showed up to rent an apartment from you, you’d be happier to see him than anyone should have been about Magnus’s participation. It never occurred to me to wonder about his prior connection to Tatiana, but in hindsight there must have been one.
I hung back, awaiting the arrival of yet more of my children into the world. Meanwhile the bidding on my brother Jim continued. My mind drifted to another surreal auction I’d attended with similar acoustics. Rather than in a cavern it had been at a natatorium. The items up for bid were quite exclusive, so the crowd wore black towels in lieu of formalwear.
My reminiscing was interrupted by the healthy cry of a newborn baby, and then another. I gathered them to my furry bossom and smiled at them, but of course they couldn’t see my real face and their screams became more urgent. “They’re hungry,” I said in my gruff midwife’s voice and handed them back to Tatiana. “Or else they’re afraid that I am.” My joke didn’t get any laughs.
“Two million two thousand ninety eight!” Tatiana called out as she nursed the twins. Magnus suddenly swept back onto the scene, leaving me disappointed I hadn’t savored his absence. The two yeti carrying a palanquin behind him sized me up as they set the conveyance down for Tatiana to board it.
“Is that thing safe?” I gruffed.
“It is the safest ever built with such a high level of recycled content,” Magnus proclaimed proudly. To this day, I am really creeped out by the memory of his smug expression.
Tatiana leaned perilously out over the side of the platform as the yeti bearers raised it again. She locked eyes with me, even through the mask. “Keep bidding!” she implored.
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