The Bluestocking 2022-23

A child?

The young doctor really wants to pet her head. He thinks that she’d be squishy and soft. She is taken away all too quickly. He already forgets.

“Describe to me the details if you can.”

Someone else floats into view.

“Black hair, green eyes, tall.” His eyes flit between her torso and lower body. “Plain white shirt, rolled up sleeves. Black tights, stilettos with a two-inch heel, dark green belt.”

“Keen eye you have, but you’re describing the wrong thing.”

“But you’re what I see.”

The woman in question frowns. He notes that her face creases up in an intricate, albeit unreadable way. Is she angry at him? Was she angry? Why was she angry? He was describing what he saw.

“The picture. You’re supposed to describe what I just showed you.”

“What picture?”

He sees the woman’s green eyes visibly flare up, then deflate.

“Never mind.” The woman sighs. She shuffles the girl into her deck again. She is being put away, secured in a small wooden box lavishly engraved with epoxy and paint pat-