by Loren, Celia
“It's perfect.”
“Good. Very good,” Zaida was briefly pleased. Then her eyes oozed down Romy's body with that same look of cool appraisal that Lefty had first used. Romy was frightened, but she wouldn't show it here. After all—wasn't her incredible gumption, her fearlessness, all a piece of the drive that had gotten her to where she was now? She'd done the unusual before. She led an unusual life, after all.
As they clambered back towards the lodge, Zaida prattled on about more job details: “You will have wax, twice a month at least. You will be beautiful, and you will be silent—deal cards, smile, look sexy. This is job. You'll be paid in cash bonus every evening, plus paycheck every Saturday before shift. You are on time, you are comported, you keep mouth shut. Yes?” She slid the faux-door shut behind them. They were back in the lodge once more.
Romy gripped her uniform by the hanger. There it was again: this condition of silence. Why was it so important that her job be secret? She felt strange, but there was no turning back from here. An unusual life, an unusual life...she murmured this to herself like a mantra. To Zaida, she said:
“Yes, ma'am.”
The woman whirled on her heels, leading them up and out of the tunnel once more.
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