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He held his hands up, jokingly. “Hey, I’ll come willingly, no need to get yourself arrested for kidnapping a Member of Parliament, especially not after you just got here. That would be awkward on so many different levels.” Political life had given him a pretty dark sense of humour, although it usually took a glass of champagne or two or three to get him to show any of it. “I’m his boss, and he likes his job, so he wasn’t exactly going to be able to leave me behind even if he wanted to! I’m sure you’ll find some folk to get along with round here. There’s something for everyone. Even if you have weird hobbies, it’s a big enough city that someone else will be just as weird. You’re getting along with me fine enough, though, surely?”
“Well then, I have a date for the near future, look at me,” Katrina smiled just a little. It was perhaps the first joke that she’d cracked in quite a while. “Yeah, my name’s been in the papers enough to last a while, I don’t need that in my life again anytime soon.” She wondered how much to tell him, though if his curiosity got the best of him, she knew all he’d have to do is look her name up and he’d find out. Then what would she do? Everyone that found out looked at her like she was just some lost girl who was weak and maybe they were right but she didn’t want them to look at her with pity or in most cases, disgust that she had been involved in something like that.
“Well, he could have and just said he thought you were with him. You never know what goes on inside some people’s minds. Weird hobbies? I collect old books, is that weird hobby? Or is that pretty normal? I- well yes, we are but this is sort of the environment where people need to be nice to one another. If we met in a cafe or something, this conversation probably wouldn’t be happening. You’d be too much in a rush getting your coffee so that you can get back to the office and I’d be trying to avoid any physical contact or conversation, huddling in a corner until my order was called before I scurried out the door and never looked back.”











