"Madamme Lincoln?" I repeated, feeling totally confused. "This town's mayor?" The woman laughed at my frowned expression as she started to approach me with a few lazy steps. She took her time as I watched her with utter disbelief and anxiety and when she stopped a mere meter away, she gave me a shake of her head with a smug smirk on her face. "I must be really a shock to you," she told me as she gave a raise of her brow and only then did she took note of my bruised look. "You got into a fight, huh? How did you mess your face up that way?" I suddenly felt a little bit self-conscious when she said that and I stumbled a step back, only remembering that my face had been partly covered with bandages. "It's nothing..." "You think I'd believe that?" She said and the sharp insinuating sound o

