"Totally," Arden lied. Like she was going to wake the insomniac up after he fell asleep. Where was BD-1 so they could exchange looks with one another?
"In the last family I was with before Callista, Miz Courtney would wash our hair in the sinks on Sundays," she said, keeping her voice low and steady. No, it wasn't the nightmare talk she promised - and she would make good on that, if not now than another time - but if Cal was close to falling asleep, she didn't want to start with anything that would make him feel like he had to do anything other than drift off.
"She was the grandmother that lived there with them, so both Michael and Janna could work and still foster. She'd sing while she did, hyms, lullabies, snatches of songs on the radio. Her voice was so rich and deep, it was like falling into molasses. It made getting my hair braided afterwards a lot easier, because I was tenderheaded as hell, but her voice made it easy not to get worked up when it hurt."
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"In the last family I was with before Callista, Miz Courtney would wash our hair in the sinks on Sundays," she said, keeping her voice low and steady. No, it wasn't the nightmare talk she promised - and she would make good on that, if not now than another time - but if Cal was close to falling asleep, she didn't want to start with anything that would make him feel like he had to do anything other than drift off.
"She was the grandmother that lived there with them, so both Michael and Janna could work and still foster. She'd sing while she did, hyms, lullabies, snatches of songs on the radio. Her voice was so rich and deep, it was like falling into molasses. It made getting my hair braided afterwards a lot easier, because I was tenderheaded as hell, but her voice made it easy not to get worked up when it hurt."