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"‘A girl would be nice,’ I said"

Kingsley laughed "We were trapped in an all-boys’ school ‘A girl would be nice’ ht have been a radical underestie"

"I didn’t want you to think you weren’t enough for sley knew Søren wasn’t like hisley, sex was sex, and he had it when he wanted ho in betas siy Søren had told hisley was the sole exception to the rule "That girl we dreareen hair and black eyes? I assume you mean the irises would be black, not that you planned on punching her in the face"

"I’m not that much of a sadist" Søren s frosley ever seen hiirl of ours, she would be wilder than both of us together"

"We dreairl like that? Isley had once dreaether They’d travel the world, see it all, wake up together, sleep together and fuck on every continent

"Nothing is impossible," Søren said

"What do you azed directly at Kingsley

"Kingsley," Søren began and paused Whatever words would cosley felt certain his world would never be the saain once they were spoken

"What is it?"

"I found her"

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KINGSLEY COULDN’T SPEAK at first What was there to say to that? What do you say to an otherwise reasonable person who suddenly looks at you and says he saw a unicorn on the side of the road or met Saint Peter while out for a walk?

"You found her You’re certain?"

"I have never beenin my life And that includes reen eyes Green hair and black eyes"

"That’s not possible"

"Her eyes change color in the light Green to black and back again When I first saw her, she had streaked green dye through her black hair She’s violent and foul-mouthed, and she told me I was an idiot Not only did she say that toshe said to o so far as to use the word feral"

"Feral A wild cat, then With claws?"

"Sharp ones SharpQuick and clever Alirl Where did you meet her?"