Hm. The way she talked about archery was intriguing, and Cash did find himself — intrigued by her, to the extent that he'd been intrigued by any of the women he'd talked to in the process of fulfilling Lucius' wishes. He watched her croquet ball clang off the post and into the wrong direction before he replied.

"Well," Cash said, "I shall trust that you are not just complimenting my skills to be complimentary, because you know too much about archery to do so." He swung his mallet at the croquet ball and watched it repeat much the same physics as her last attempt. "And it has to be better than croquet."

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