I touch my hands go the keys and begin to play...
I keep listening though, waiting in case I need to pull out my "big guns." Just thinking about it makes me sick, but I'll do what I have to.
I... well... shit. Why in blazes name would she think the lady at the piano is the owner? Farthoom, she knows this is a brothel right? The way she is looking at me is not good. I angle my body to better hide Ratchett and to turn to face her through…
I see Esco nod to his room, but I shake my head no, ever so slightly. They asked me to keep the peace and that is what I am going to do.
"Thank you Ratchett, why don't you come over and sit with me at the piano?" My voice is calm and even. I hum a…
I sit down at the piano, my hands shaking just a bit. I hate that she can do this to me... I hate that she has this sort of control. I wish I could do something to her, I wish I could... A thought suddenly strikes me. My hands are still shaking, but…
If I didn't trust Esco I'd leave then and there, but I trust him more than to take that like it sounds... or maybe I am still too green. It would be a cold day is Hell before I run and hide to Esco's room, but he has a point. Seems no one is avoidin…
I turn the glass over in my hand. I don't like it.
"I just heard you were in some mighty trouble. Reese stopped by -" Esco knew about Reese by now, surely. Like Reese himself said, Esco knows everything that happens in the Irons... or at least he …
I wrap my hand around the drink. I have a feeling I might have accidentally stepped on a landmine. Blaze be damned though if I am given up the first taste of what actually might pass for alcohol on the outside.
"Thanks, JD." My hand is still on my…
This is why I like to get to Diamond early, to avoid a crowd. I steal myself to the stares and walk straight to the bar to join Esco, JD and June.
"You don't look like you are getting ready for a fight." I say, as I sit down on a stool. "Should …
Gorrem, but Reese is sweet, with those eyes and that... if I was into touching people I might think about touching him. Squeezing his hand, or something, but that causes nothing but trouble.
"What would I do with that, huh? You know I've never tou…
I think about it, but I want to check on Esco. Make sure he's doing OK. I don't live far from Diamond - for some annoyingly flirtatious reason that Esco gave before he got to know me - and I can always run back here if things start "happening."
I …
Artemis sqwuaks in the corner like he knows what I am thinking. All of this sounds bad. I don't quite understand how bad, most of the names don't ring a bell. I remember hearing about "The Fat Man" when we used to watch on the Feed, but I never care…
I give Reese a small smile. He's sweet, and not bad to look at, but he's one of those who thinks I am an angel. It's weird, after all these years to be treated with reverence and respect. It gives me powerful surge of pride that I just don't trust. …
I take the book gingerly from him. "I thought the misty mountain song would be your favorite. I learned the tune once, it's pretty." I give him a once over, seeing the amount of ammo he has on him. "Expecting trouble, Reese?"
"Reese, crack, what time is it?" Standing up I button the coat covering my body as much a possible. Reese admitted to me that he could read two weeks ago and has been slowly going through my library since. He recently borrowed J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The …
Gorrem son of a -- I look instinctively for a chronometer, but of course there isn't one. I definitely slept in late, or perhaps I'm so early I can't tell the difference. I usually make my way through to Diamonds in the "mornings'. Esco knows these …
I did make a friend though - unlikely as that is - and a girl too. I've been staying away from all the women in the DVFP. Don't count the whores in that number, they are too familiar for me to worry bout - but I've found on the inside that men are e…
I've only been here a month, but in that time I found out people were willing to trade books and things for almost nothing. Books don't have a ton of value to a population who, in large, can't read their own names. So, I have managed to collect a mi…
My highest HX is with Cinch.
Sierra pays 1 barter for her lifestyle. She doesn't own anything except what she came here with and is just renting a room and the necessary things to keep her off the ledge. (This possibly goes straight into @scott's…