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Mercedes Lackey and Ellen Guon
Knights of Ghosts and Shadows

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"Selfish, inconsiderate, irresponsible—"

Maureen's voice had been rising all through this tirade;

by now she was hitting A above high C, and everyone in
the Faire could hear her. Eric Banyon winced, and wished
she'd get to the point, since it was pretty clear he wasn't
going to be able to patch up this fight.

Christ, it would be nice if she'd tell me what it is I'm
supposed to have done that was so awful.

She stamped her foot, and got angrier—if that was
possible—when she made no impression on the hard-
baked adobe. "Shit, Eric, I can't take you anymore! You,
you, you, that's all you think about! Where you want to
go, what you want to do, when you want to screw—now
this—this—"

Now wait just a cotton-pickin minute here— Her accu-
sations bewildered—and angered—him. What is this shit?
I've never asked her to do anything she didn't want to. I've
never gotten her into anything she didn't okay first! So I'm
doing the Fairesfor a while—I'm a musician, dammit, and
so is she! What's the big deal about my taking a couple of
gigs?

Maureen's long red hair was coming loose from its knot;

strands of it flew around her face as she gestured at the
messy area back of the Elizabethan Faire mainstage. Eric
presumed, however, that she was including the whole of
the Faire in her gesture.

"Dammit, I have had it with you!" she screamed, com-

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ing into full operatic voice. "I have ^^^^
selfishness and I have had it with this grubby little dump

and I have had it with you!"