The smallest of the three woman had been sitting quietly for a while now. With that intensity about her gaze that I still don't fully understand.
It does remind me a little bit of one of my brother's many wives - a Civet shifter in his harem collection of allied kingdom women. Maybe I shouldn't be so judgemental still, considering I 'played the field' plenty in my own way.
But that woman was absolutely not *ever* silent. That was the bigger problem, I simply did not *fit* with any of his wives, all of them were irked by me or had done something that made me just as dismissive of them.
Still she had the look like this person does in her eyes. Like she sees and judges something constantly. Dr. Sue Mei sets down the cup she'd been cradling with a little clink against the table.
Far more noise than she'd made in ten minutes.
"Before I do. May I be honest about something?"
