IMP15

==Chapter 15 - Important People==
Tharkad City
Tharkad System
Lyran Commonwealth
September 3097
[Gagnon's On Katrinastrasse, 14 hours before go-time...]
Amanda had never been here.  The sign on the door said 'By appointment only' and Irena had to grab her hand and lead her in.
"Irena! Child!!"
"Hello Margi, I bring a friend." Irena said. 
The walls were festooned with artwork that Amanda was pretty sure cost as much as a working shuttlecraft, and the inside of the store didn't look like a store.
It looked, if anything, like one of those parlors from a bad holovid about rich people.
"This is Amanda Ngo." Irena continued.
Margi, a tall woman (two meters at least) with hair piled even taller in a style that must have taken hours to achieve, let out a bit of a squeal. "My Goodness! A Ngo!!"
"Whut?" Amanda looked confused.
"You must be Elizabeth's daughter, yes?" Margie continued.
"Um, yeah..?" reluctantly replied Amanda.
"Laura!! Elizabeth Ngo's little girl is here!!"
Amanda was more confused.
"You know my mom?" Amanda asked, "How do you know my Mom??"
"She was Maggie's favorite little project!" 'Laura' turned out to be a buxom brunette almost as tall as the bombshell blonde Margi.  "My god, she looks like a younger version...but taller.  I assume this is for an outfit to the Archon's ball?"
"Who's 'maggie'?" asked Amanda
"Oh, Lady Margaret Doons, rest her soul. She brought your mother in once a year for decades, until the poor girl married that foreigner."  Laura spouted, "Gagnon will be shocked to have another chance."
"Hm Skinsuit." Margi said, "Ship's boots..." and then she ran fingers through Amanda's hair, hissing and tsking, "Spacer's hair too...so little time! Come on Ladies, time is wasting!!"
They're going to eat me alive! Thought Amanda.
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