Lady Distressed This work is copyright M.A. Mohanraj 1996, all rights reserved. Please don't repost this or make it publically accessible via FTP, mail server, or archive site without my explicit permission.
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Lady Distressed Jane stood lost amidst lords and ladies, jugglers and madmen, merchants who plucked at her blouse and dirty children in rags, wondering what had possessed her. He had begged her to come to the Faire with him, to indulge in an afternoon of harmless hedonism away from her computer, and she had inexplicably agreed. Normally she was impervious to such persuasion, but yesterday she had fallen victim to his persistent pleas. Maybe it was those soft lips or soft words that had moved her. It certainly hadn't been love.