I found the Instructional section and spotted the item I’d come into the store for in one of the stacks on a lower shelf. Dog Psychology: The Basis of Dog Training.
Oooh, that’s a good idea. Research on that ought to help massively with understanding Rachel.
With minimal experience being around dogs, I needed more information, if I was going to continue relating with Bitch. I’d known I wanted a book on the topic of how dogs thought & related to others, and I was glad to have found it.
Knowledge is power, or in this case, social skill.
Kind of.
I tucked the book under one arm, then picked up another book on tailoring, as a possible reference for future costume design. Flipping through it, I wasn’t too impressed. I checked out another.
My thoughts froze as a hand touched my hair. I belatedly remembered Brian.
Ah, right, he was going to meet up with her here once he was done.
…pretty much the opposite of what I predicted seems to have happened here – I thought she’d be too preoccupied with composing her explanation to properly focus on the books, but instead she got so preoccupied with the books that she seems to have forgotten to work on the explanation.
I tried and failed to organize my thoughts. I’d forgotten to plan out what to say to him, and what would he be doing touching my hair?
That’s also a good question. Either he’s being particularly affectionate, or this isn’t Brian.
The latter option is a little skeevier.
I started to turn around, only for the hand to seize my ear and wrench it hard enough to make my legs buckle at the pain.
Well, shit.
Definitely not Brian.
I was shoved over and my body’s weight and momentum weren’t enough to pull my ear free from my attacker’s grip, with the skin joining my ear to my head paying the price.
Owww.
I felt like my skin was tearing, and I couldn’t even scream as my breath hitched in my throat.
😦
So, options:
– Brian. Nope.
– The shopkeeper. Not likely, as Taylor hasn’t done anything suspicious and the attacker hasn’t said anything.
– One of the Harpies. This kind of direct attack doesn’t seem like their style, and the ear grab sounds too advanced.
– An Empire Eighty-Eight member. How would they recognize Taylor? Does the Empire know her civilian identity somehow?
Hm…
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