“Because Twin Forks is a complete null, Daddy.”Įxasperation colored Stephanie’s reply, even though she knew it was a tactical error. “If you really want something to do, why don’t you run into Twin Forks with Mom this afternoon?” This isn’t Meyerdahl, you know.” Stephanie closed her eyes and looked martyred, and his expression showed a flash of regret at having let the last sentence slip out. “I know you do, honey,” her father said more gently, reaching out to tousle her curly brown hair. “But I’ve been stuck inside with nothing to do all winter,” she said, easily suppressing a twinge of conscience as she neglected to mention snowball fights, cross-country skiing, sleds, snow tunnels, and certain other diversions. “Just because you haven’t seen any hexapumas or peak bears doesn’t mean they aren’t out there.” “We’re not going to discuss this further,” he said with ominous calm. and even her father was unscrupulously willing to abandon his proper pliancy when he decided the situation justified it. Unfortunately, her mother had always been a tougher customer. That gave her certain advantages, and she’d become an expert at wrapping her father around her finger almost as soon as she could talk. She was almost twelve T-years old, smart, an only child, and a daughter.
negotiating skills almost as much as she resented the restriction she was trying to avoid.
This wasn’t going well at all, and she resented that reflection on her. Then the toe of his right foot started tapping lightly, and her heart sank. “Oh, Daaaddy-!” Stephanie began, only to close her mouth sharply when her father folded his arms. “I don’t want you wandering off into those woods again without me or your mom along. “I mean it, Stephanie!” Richard Harrington said. Planet Sphinx, Manticore Binary Star System Pages by Joy Freeman (Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data tk
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