Re: The Bar - Rajani and Magnus And now he's dead, she couldn't help but think. Not that she would dare say it out loud, and risk scaring off the handsome master and jeopardizing things with Maia. No one wanted a depressing slave, and certainly not one they thought might actually hurt them. She'd learned that much already.
Janie smiled at him again, if more softly than before. "That is very kind of you to say so, sir," she told him, because it really was, even if it was misinformed. "But the past is in the past," the woman took a deep breath, exhaled, and pushed the looming unpleasantness into its little corner where it could be neatly locked behind bars for the time being. "I find that the enjoyment of the present is far more attractive a proposition," she warmed her tone.