Green, Sharon - Diana Santee 03 by Green Sharon

Author:Green, Sharon [Green, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-05-30T15:32:12+00:00

Tanderon by Sharon Green - Chapter 7

"How would you know?" she suddenly demanded, anger flashing out of her plain, soft eyes. "No one who looks like you could ever know how I feel!"

She'd stopped walking to lash out at me with her pain, but she wasn't the sort to keep it up very long.

"Oh, I'm sorry," she apologized at once, the anger disappearing as abruptly as it had flared. "I didn't really mean to say that. I know you're just trying to help."

"Giving help is usually easier than taking it," I observed with a sigh, touching her arm to start us walking again. "But when you get down to the final line, you often discover that no one can help you but yourself. And looking like me isn't worth what you think it is."

Then I added in a mutter, "It isn't even worth what I thought it was."

"What did you say?" she asked, her expression still thoughtful as she considered the part she'd heard.

"Nothing," I returned with a smile, shaking my head to dismiss futile thoughts. "Nothing at all. Let's get on to the food."

The mess hall was a wide, one-story building at the end of South Street, with table assignments posted on a board hanging outside the front door. When Elaine and I got to our assigned table almost everyone else was already there, including our roommate Linda - who glanced at me as I took a chair near her.

"I see you really don't waste any time, do you?" she said in the icky-sweet tones that seemed to be natural to her.

"What's that supposed to mean?" I asked, paying only partial attention to her as I settled myself.

"I saw you talking to someone on the parade ground," she said, making graceful prints of her forefinger on the smooth surface of the table.

"He's not bad, but I bet I can do better."

" Anybody could do better," I assured her with a snort, then looked around the hall. "Where's the food? I'm starving."

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