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"I’ll have the…" She looks down at her ot that glowing smile on her face that makes people love her Makes me love her, that’s for sure "Scrambled, please"

The waitress looks over at Sasha and waits I expect so atrocious to come out of her filthy irl voice, "Dino Egg Pancake Plate and orange juice"

"Oh, I want OJ too," Harper says

"Does that come with hash browns?" Sasha asks

"No, those are extra, sweetie"

"Jaet hash browns too?"

I alain, but if she wants to playact, I can go along "Whatever you want, Princess Ss and by the ti kid What the hell was that?

I watch her look out theat the dinosaurs again, and then Harper takes my hands in hers, leans across the table, and kisses me on the cheek "We’re OK, James"

"I know," I say back with a smile For now, at least But this trip will be over before we know it and then… I’m not sure what happens

After that Harper keeps the conversation going She asks Sasha all kinds of dinosaur questions and gets a well-articulated answer for each and every one of them Sasha reports on shit I’ve never heard of before and it’s clear this is her passion Not guns Not hunters Not revenge Although I’m pretty sure she harbors a deep resente, if offered

I’ht now, she’s Sasha the dino nerd

The food coo quiet as they eat Sasha finishes everything on her plate and she’s done long before we are so she excuses herself to use the bathroom Harper slides out and then back in after Sasha takes off

"So," Harper starts "What do you think all that was about?"

I should’ve expected that, but soured she’d moved past it "Look," I say with a little bit more exasperation than is necessary "She’s a very troubled kid, OK? Her father was blown up last Christ Then she went to live with her grandparents and they were blown up too"

"That’s what she was talking about when she said she killed four people?"

"Yeah, her father, fro anyway"--Tread carefully here, Tet, my inner voice cautions This is new info froht--"was a former assassin trainer and he left that position and became an arms supplier out of Cheyenne And Sasha seeacy"

"So she’s a trained hunter?" Harper looks away as she puts these things together "Like me? Only she can shoot and I can’t"