SYLVANAThe knock came again, sharper this time, and Julian made a low sound of irritation against my hair, his hips still buried deep, still refusing to move. "Ignore it.""She won't go away," I whispered, and I don't know how I knew that, except that the woman outside had the patient, unhurried look of someone who had decided to be a problem and was enjoying it.Julian swore under his breath. He shifted me on his lap, still inside me, and cracked the window a hand's width. Cold air rushed in, and with it her voice — low, easy, amused. "Well. Julian.""Mira."She looked past him and found me, and her smile widened by slow degrees. Older than me by a few years, dark hair swept back, red lipstick, a long grey coat that fit like it had been tailored onto her specifically. She looked at me in without any hurry at all — my swollen mouth, my skirt bunched at my waist, the flush I could feel burning my cheeks."You're busy," she said."I'm always busy.""You're never *this* busy." Her eyes
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