Chapter Twenty-Two
Applause and More
“For such a small size, the prostate causes monumental problems.” —Legless
Don pulled up a chair by Archie.
“I am not sure, but I think he’s watching.”
Archie took a sip of hot chocolate. He didn’t hear. He was watching Bunnie dance with Gary, an Identity at the height of his hypnotic powers, a known mover. He was young and full of such talk as “use it or lose it,” “having it all,” and “believing in yourself”—the sort of claptrap which, as Archie put it, got many humans in trouble.
Gary, using his trademark fifties jitterbug move, twirled Bunnie from side to side. Bunnie’s heart skipped a beat as he then whisked her into a frenzy of turns that had her hair flowing, her red skirt billowing, and her seeing double.
Gary went in for a whisper . . .
