"
After a quick, sharp glance at him, Mandi gave him a wry grin as she said,
"Yes, I know. I wasn't sure you would."
"Gee thanks. That, by the way, was an 'antiphrasis'."
Mandi stopped and looked intently up at him for a moment, nodded, then
continued walking.
As they reached the escalators that led to the ballrooms below, Cade asked,
"You had to look that one up, didn't you?"
When Mandi didn't answer, Cade said in German, "I'm very sure you have been
told often that you're a very beautiful woman."
Without a hint of hesitation or unnecessary modesty, Mandi replied in
German, "Yes, I have."
Nodding, Cade said, "Kinda thought you could do that."
"Why?"
"You wouldn't have been sent here unprepared."
Giving Cade a sidelong glance, Mandi asked, "What makes you think I was sent
here?"
"You aren't a product of normal anthropogenesis and nobody on Earth could
create you in a test tube. You were manufactured somewhere else." He glanced at
her and added in French, "And whoever did it did a damned fine job."
Mandi grinned and returned in French, "Thank you again," with no regional
accent.
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