Project Dakota: Rising of the dead
Her mouth formed a tiny ‘o’ of surprise, and then, with a sudden, jerky movement, she scrambled to her feet, grabbed two of her painted stones, and ducked behind Lena’s chair, peeking out at him from behind the fabric.
Levi, for his part, seemed to have been turned to stone. The defensive sneer he’d prepared for authority figures like Eli and Marcus completely failed him in the face of this feminine audience. He stared, utterly flummoxed. His own cheeks, Ethel noted with a surge of internal amusement, were dusted with a faint, pink hue. He opened his mouth, closed it, then managed a strangled, “Uh. Hey.”
The silence stretched, thick with adolescent awkwardness. Elise, trying to bridge the ga
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