143. A Welcome Distraction
Amy shakes her head, as though trying to physically dislodge such a bad idea. “I’m no slut. I wouldn’t know the first thing to do to seduce a man. Let alone a man as… idiosyncratic as this one.” She backs away as she tries to bring her mind back to the duel.
As she does so, she runs into something very hard and curvy. KLANG! She’s managed to push over a suit of armor, which has fallen into the suit next to it! KLANG! BANG! SPRANG! The suits fall one into another, like dominoes, running all along the perimeter of the room. Amy watches for a moment, then looks back at the fencer. He stands, mouth agape, watching the suits crash into one another. Apparently he’s contemplating the work he’ll have to do getting the gallery back in order once all this is done.
Amy decides to take advantage of the fencer’s momentary distraction. She…