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Sofaith I had in Rian Godda through the space under his ar robes apart and generally acting like none of the people had any dahts screeched to a halt, just like so else that was still poking out of a ruined shop front Because around here, you were either a have or a have-not, and it looked like the haves could do whatever the hell they damned well pleased

And nobody questioned it

"Come on," I told Caleb "I have an idea"

"You’d think we’d get rumbled at Caleb, ten minutes later

"Ever since the XP-38 caet cultural references, do you?"

I frowned "I get them You just have weird ones"

"That was from Star Wars It wasn’t weird"

"I’ve seen Star Wars and that wasn’t in it"

"In the first movie, when they’re in the desert?" he asked "When they have to sell Luke’s speeder?"

"Oh You mean the old ones"

"The old ones? The old ones? You ood--" He saw my expression "Never et an outfit like yours," I said, looking enviously at the rich green woolly fabric of his long, caftanlike garment It ar with the one you have on?"

"Other than the fact that I look like a hooker?"

I tugged at the back of the tight pink panties I earing, but it didn’t help They were still at least two sizes too s the merchant we picked had that we could afford And we hadn’t had time to comparison shop

Of course, it didn’trobe like Caleb’s It was a little irl attire, particularly when the only thing I had on besides the ass-baring panties was a pair of diaphanous, slit-up-to-heaven hare as much asme for some reason

"You look like I Drea not at all

"I think it looks like they copied it fro else"

"If there was copying, I’d say it was the other way around," Caleb said, glancing a little longingly at the buildings ere passing The people here ht not have wood, but they’d used what they had to full advantage, carving lintels, colurills over their s, all out of the same red stone

Caleb looked like he’d have liked a chance to explore a little He looked like the proverbial kid in the candy store, only without any money I felt kind of bad for hi around would be too healthy

"What?" I asked

"The incubi caht?" he asked

I nodded

"And this place caht bits of this culture to earth, not the other way around"

"Yeah, but why these bits?" I asked, still trying to dig one out of my ass

Caleb just looked at e an outfit like that?"

I sighed "It’s justonce, you know? Just once, I’d like to go on ashot, or otherwise being an issue"

"Look at it this way," he said, handing me up to the back of the seuards will be too busy staring at it to pay us any attention"

"Yeah Maybe" Or maybe ere about to make Rosier’s job really, really easy But at least the shop oasn’t trying to stop us, even though Caleb’s outfit was striped and the other guy’s had been plain, and even though his skin had been a different color, and even though I was a blonde and the driver had left with a brunette

Of course, he was an incubus, so I supposed that last one could be explained