The Secular Wizard - Wis In Rhyme - 4 - Plot & Excerpts
It was echoed by a collective hum from the crowd waiting inside the gates; it sounded suspiciously like "Yum! I1 Each of the mature men was instantly visited by a prosperous-looking, if flashy, city man or woman; each mature woman was accosted, too. If couples tried to stay together, the city folk wheedled and cajoled and showered them with flattery that gradually pulled them apart. That happened with the young folk, too, though much more quickly. Girls with shining eyes were listening, entranced, to the blandishments of older, motherly looking women-and if the paint on their faces was a little too thick or too flashy, well, wasn'that the way all city women looked? Matt picked up a few odd sentences as he hustled his two charges through the ring of human sharks, firmly keeping them in hand. "Yes, dear, a place to stay till you've learned your way around Ve-narra," one grandmotherly sort was saying. "Clean sheets, and a way to earn some money-sisters to show you how things are done-and ever such handsome gentlemen to come calling!" "But why are you willing to help us so?" a starry-eyed girl was asking another woman decked in costume jewelry.
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