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"...Just remember to smile pretty... Here, blot your lips and let's move it." He grinned at his girlfriend, firmly refusing to acknowledge the nervousness fluttering between them. Her face was incredible: almost chalk white, as was fashionable; stunning blue eyes accented with sharp thin lines of khol; mouth a shocking slash of black-red... He thought he'd seen her looking more lovely only once or twice before, and both times she'd been clean-faced.

Mae smiled up at him, shyly, one slender hand rising to push gently at the riotous mass of ringlets that her bright green hair was in. "If yer sur' t'is's gonna werk..." She took the tissue he held out, pressing it carefully to her lips.

"Of course it'll work. -I- want you there, because you haven't been able to come along on the last couple of deals, and I'm afraid this is the only way..." Pausing, he leans forward, cradling her jaw with one big hand. "Besides, if we -don't- leave _now_, and mingle with people that will provide constraint while allowing me to show you off... I'm going to be sorely tempted blow off our meeting and stay in aaaall night long."