01-11-2018, 09:22 PM
Okay, so Laurie wasn't a country bumpkin, but the glittering towers of the Moscow business district were incredible to behold. She'd seen pictures of the skyline, of course. The architecture seemed to defy laws of gravity. All this was built so fast, it was amazing they even stood. Even the elevator was fascinating. The machinery was silent, but she simply knew they were flying into the air like they rode rockets rather than an elevator car. It was amazing.
She kept her awe and wonder to herself by the time they reached Jaxen's dad. He wasn't the first to try and charm her, nor the first older man to do so either, but she smiled sweetly when he kissed her hand. She had no problems with letting men assume she was nothing more than a pretty face and long pair of legs. While father and son spoke, she waited like a patient flower on the side of the room, but she watched and listened.
The way Jaxen painted his father, she had anticipated a bigger fight to emerge. He seemed to be giving in to a lot of Jaxen's demands without much of a struggle. Certainly Jaxen wasn't suggesting that Lawrence be his date? The awe that lifted her brows wasn't faked, then. If she could get inside the Kremlin and possibly meet Ascendancy, her followers would explode. Of course, it would have to be carefully presented. The CCD was rather touchy about media reporting on their fearless leader.
Mention of snake-people was something she would have to ask about later.Scion didn't seem to take to the story very well and Laurie didn't feel like rubbing salt in wounds right then.
She kept her awe and wonder to herself by the time they reached Jaxen's dad. He wasn't the first to try and charm her, nor the first older man to do so either, but she smiled sweetly when he kissed her hand. She had no problems with letting men assume she was nothing more than a pretty face and long pair of legs. While father and son spoke, she waited like a patient flower on the side of the room, but she watched and listened.
The way Jaxen painted his father, she had anticipated a bigger fight to emerge. He seemed to be giving in to a lot of Jaxen's demands without much of a struggle. Certainly Jaxen wasn't suggesting that Lawrence be his date? The awe that lifted her brows wasn't faked, then. If she could get inside the Kremlin and possibly meet Ascendancy, her followers would explode. Of course, it would have to be carefully presented. The CCD was rather touchy about media reporting on their fearless leader.
Mention of snake-people was something she would have to ask about later.Scion didn't seem to take to the story very well and Laurie didn't feel like rubbing salt in wounds right then.