Eventually Sharon stopped laughing and clambered to her feet. Deciding that being squashed under five of the dolls was a fitting punishment for Jim, she did not intervene. Instead she made her way over towards where the mayoral aide was being "comforted" by three or four of the more lesbian-inclined dolls. As it happened, the aide was a lesbian too, so she was not unwilling. No wonder Jim had had no luck with her, Sharon thought. Fortunately it was getting late, and the media people all seemed to have packed up and left within the last half-hour or so, or there might have been some rather unwelcome coverage.
Neither the aide nor any of the dolls noticed Sharon approaching. "Ahem," Sharon said when she had come to within a few feet of them. "Am I interrupting anything?"
The dolls did not hear her, of course, but the aide did and almost jumped out of her skin. That alerted the dolls, and so they looked up and saw Sharon.
"You're the original!" the aide said, hurriedly adjusting her clothing. "I saw you in that meeting with the mayor earlier, when I brought in a message for him. What are you doing here?"
"Like you said, I'm the original. So I naturally feel that I must have a part to play in all this, even though the meeting I was at earlier proved to be a complete waste of time."
Mon May 10 13:32:44 2004