Excerpts from the The Courtesan Prince

copyright Lynda Williams

RANAR

That's my favorite synthdrama. You know? The one with the best historical research and stuff like that." She hoped that earned her points, and that he didn't try confirming it by looking up her viewing record.

"More to the point, in real life," Ranar said dryly, "is that Thomas learned the jump from a Gelack."

"What?"
"Have you read any of my work at all?" he asked.

"Some stuff about embroidery," she said lamely.

Ranar sighed. "The significance of that is that the work is done by hand, which is typically Gelack."

"How do you know they're not fakes someone manufactured?"

"It can be deduced with a fairly simple analysis. Do you really want the details from me, here, now?"

She scowled. "If you are so smart, how come you took up a subject as obscure as Gelackology?"

"Ah," he sat back, loosening up for the first time since she had met him, as if he was laughing at himself now. "If you really must know, I think I had a crush on Ameron."

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