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Iris stood behindminor adjustments I had just realized that ht around et back to business Let Jane try on another outfit and we’ll keep talking"

I tottered back into the dressing roo her eyes "Fine, if we h heels with a sigh "The goblin called a few days ago, saying that she wanted to speak to me about Peter, but she never showed up for her appointment So I can’t tell you what Gretchen wanted, because I didn’t actually rew honeysuckle sweet "I have so as that is," Ryu’s dry voice cut in, "I’m afraid we need to concentrate on what you just said about Peter You knew Peter?" he asked "Do you know he’s dead?"

I was inchingwhat a snake felt like shedding its skin, when I heard Iris sigh "Yes," she said "He was such a lovelywith his--"

"I’ue to keep fro "But someone ate Peter’s death, has been ation is that she was supposed to come see you, and we need to find out why"

I slipped the dress Iris had given me over my head with pleasure It was a silkymy skin, and it was the loveliest pattern There were two shades of purple involved, a rich bright pink and a little white The pattern itself was vaguely geoanic feel to the whole thing There was an insanely long sash that I didn’t knohat to do with hanging froe before, I was practically an advertisement for it in this dress Which was also very, very short

There was a lull in conversation outside roup Iris definitely knew so us; there was a slyness to her prevarications that spoke volu Iris was like asking obedience of a golden retriever You had to interject treats, ball throwing, and belly rubs as carrots, while the stick would get you nowhere I’d also figured out that, under these circumstances, I seemed toroo her hands together Even given his annoyance, Ryu looked pretty pleased with the effect

"It’s a ki over to wrap the deep purple sash aroundit into a small knot in front The "e sleeves She pulled out another pair of enorhter-purple shade of the dress and they had s up froer-striped, with the stripes being the little cut-out triangles All the shoe’s edges were lined in a thin etching of gold "Platform pumps by Christian Louboutin, as you can probably tell fro them on my feet

When she swiveled orgeous, and in the ant In reality, I barely came up to Iris’s chin and in those shoes I would probably walk like I’d just gotten off a horse, but if I kept still Ias she sain And then again I took my chance, and I struck

"Iris?" I asked, quietly, not wanting to disturb her reverie

"Yes?" she htly tighter and slightly apart, to up the boobage factor even more

"Tell us about Peter," I cajoled "Did he tell you why he was in Rockabill? He tolda book"

Iris looked me in the eyes, and I took another little involuntary step forward This woerous, my brain observed while my irrepressible libidohed, and said, "Oh, he was a naughty boy He wasn’t writing a book; he was investigating a halfling down in Rockabill That’s what he did Well, that’s all he could do, really He was practically huifts But he could sense other halflings, for so to get when you have a child with a human Sometimes they’re just like you, and sometimes they’re just like the hu else at all, and they come out entirely unique"

Iris untied and re-tied the sash around hter and wider this ti intently, but he was careful not to interrupt us