“Yes, mystery books,” Adrienne affirmed, nodding and taking her teacup from hovering at her shoulder to sip it.
And then immediately choked.
She’d have been having a grand time talking to Mr. Wye, and rather thought it would be nice to invite him over on a regular basis - perhaps introduce him to Ari and Cash. But then the ghost posed his question, and Adrienne thought she must have heard wrong. English was her second language, after all, and yet there was no equivalent vocabulary that could be mistaken for the phrase ‘nightly ecstasies’. And still, propriety and her upbringing demanded she have absolute clarity before she even began to think of a coherent answer.
“I - I beg your pardon, Mr. Wye, I don’t know if I’ve heard you correctly.” She coughed through her request, her teacup rattling on the plate as she quivered on the spot. “Bestowed with...what?”
And then immediately choked.
She’d have been having a grand time talking to Mr. Wye, and rather thought it would be nice to invite him over on a regular basis - perhaps introduce him to Ari and Cash. But then the ghost posed his question, and Adrienne thought she must have heard wrong. English was her second language, after all, and yet there was no equivalent vocabulary that could be mistaken for the phrase ‘nightly ecstasies’. And still, propriety and her upbringing demanded she have absolute clarity before she even began to think of a coherent answer.
“I - I beg your pardon, Mr. Wye, I don’t know if I’ve heard you correctly.” She coughed through her request, her teacup rattling on the plate as she quivered on the spot. “Bestowed with...what?”
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