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"Dude, was there a puddle of cynicis?" Grizzie asked, her expression clearly horrified "Life is always big It’s your life"

But what if you’ve lived a hundred lifeti of the preternatural cal a lot less lively?

"Take"If you want to talk about life experience, I’ve ratcheted up quite a bit in s I’ve not only been around the block, but I’ve burned the block down At least twice"

I couldn’t help but agree Grizzie had lived a very crazy life

"And I’ life, Jane Cuz that’s how I choose to be I think that you’recertain people--people who have this ‘been there, done that’ attitude to everything--with people who’ve experienced a lot of stuff They’re not the sa like they’ve already done everything talking around like that before they did anything It’s just who they are People ant to live? They live"

Bizarrely enough, the person I thought about as Grizzie finished speaking was Morrigan She’d convinced everyone she was everything Alfar i cold and detached, like a living zo that what Grizzie said had a lot of , evil bitch But while those weren’t the best character traits, they were definitely a choice shebut cold and detached She’d chosen to live as a cheating, murderous, purist monster, but she’d definitely chosen to live

But that doesn’t mean you, Jane True, can compete with all of Anyan’s life experience, ave it a raspberry, but it was still too caught up in its own spanking fantasy to foric

"You don’t look convinced," Grizzie said, frowning

"No, I think you’re totally right about what you were saying," I replied, shakingto live versus just living"

"But?"

"But… that doesn’t change the fact that he’s lived a lot And I haven’t"

Grizzie’s wide mouth frowned even more, and she walked toward me until she was perched next to me on the break table, one arood for you, Jane True?"

My silence was hed, clearly at a loss "That’s just… stupid," she replied, eventually

I couldn’t help but laugh Grizzie laughed too, but without a lot of humor

"I don’t really knohat to say, honey You know I think you’re aeous And I know Juan wants you and he’d be silly to pass up the opportunity you represent But who knohat another person’s priorities are? So up withwith Tracy"

I frowned at her: my turn to protest

"I know you’re not one of the is that people neverhalf the tiether that was… comfortable Sexy and sparky, and all of that… but also comfortable You look like you fit Fit for what, I dunno Maybe just for a fewin an old age full of tons of grandkids and a sive yourself a fucking break You’re a catch, for anybody’s net"

I strained upward to kiss Grizzie on the cheek I wasn’t so sure about ht about the other stuff: I didn’t know anything about as going on between Anyan andyet to know I needed to stop worrying about it and let things play out

Hopefully with added jungle sex and little or no hip breakage, I thought, wondering for the trillionth ti ih about me," I said "I want to hear all about you, Tracy, and the babies"

Grizzie grinned, and her happiness was so dazzling that it made her earlier ball-and-chain jokes all the funnier