(seasons) Metrics for 5/5/08

starting count: 54684
ending count: 55490
change: +806

starting line:
Justin was sputtering, and he was bright red, but Shanna plowed on, ignoring both their reactions.

ending line:
“I agree.” Dan went back to admiring the painting, to her relief, and didn’t press her anymore. “Shit, I might have to redecorate the club to match this. She’s…God, Cleo, you’re a fucking genius, did I mention that?”

darling:
The girl from her dreams glowered out at them, transformed from a chained prisoner to a Dark Queen perched on her throne. Her long, dark hair flowed over her shoulders and down her back, hugging her like a second skin of Shadows and magic. Pale skin accentuated the angularity of her beautiful face; her dark blue eyes pierced the shadowy hollows of her eye sockets, furthering the image of the skull that Cleo had noticed as she was painting. Death stared haughtily out at them, daring her viewers not to notice her as her court clustered around her feet in various positions of adoring, terrified servitude. Behind her stood three men, all looking at her possessively, but the Dark Queen ignored them.

She belonged to no one.

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Chugging along. More tomorrow. Wish me luck, I start class as well.