[ It would still be possible to simply pluck the insolent little thing from the street and carry her off, witnesses or no. The stranger contemplates this alternative with no small dreamy relish, eyes half-lidded in the shadows of her hood.
But it would produce so much screaming, and force her into further proximity with the brat, and she would have to fashion another cell, and all in all, it would be fuss, and she has quite enough fuss as matters stand. ]
A poison produced by the metabolic processes of a living organism - poison, meaning the things which make a person ill or, in your case, are imbibed for the purpose of intoxication.
[ Oh Little Miss Forty Shots, a story that she believes for not one instant.
Without further ado, she sniffs disdainfully and pivots, marching off muttering well above her breath, with no pretense of concealment: ]
Arrogant children - insolent babes - to think I am called on to act as scullion, procurer of fishnoodles, oh, to see the day -
[ She does, in fact, cut the line, and follows that by cutting off the protests of those in it with a creative and enthusiastic series of threats, largely involving the liver, and this display impresses upon the purveyor of these accursed 'fishnoodles' the necessity of speed and fish. In a trice, the harridan is marching back in her Pyrrhic victory, a take out container of steaming noodles, fish, and sweet sauce in hand that she thrusts at Vi without ceremony, ignoring the displeasure and abuse hurled at her turned back. ]
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But it would produce so much screaming, and force her into further proximity with the brat, and she would have to fashion another cell, and all in all, it would be fuss, and she has quite enough fuss as matters stand. ]
A poison produced by the metabolic processes of a living organism - poison, meaning the things which make a person ill or, in your case, are imbibed for the purpose of intoxication.
[ Oh Little Miss Forty Shots, a story that she believes for not one instant.
Without further ado, she sniffs disdainfully and pivots, marching off muttering well above her breath, with no pretense of concealment: ]
Arrogant children - insolent babes - to think I am called on to act as scullion, procurer of fishnoodles, oh, to see the day -
[ She does, in fact, cut the line, and follows that by cutting off the protests of those in it with a creative and enthusiastic series of threats, largely involving the liver, and this display impresses upon the purveyor of these accursed 'fishnoodles' the necessity of speed and fish. In a trice, the harridan is marching back in her Pyrrhic victory, a take out container of steaming noodles, fish, and sweet sauce in hand that she thrusts at Vi without ceremony, ignoring the displeasure and abuse hurled at her turned back. ]