"It's a special talent," Elia drawled in response. "One that I seem to have developed over time. Maybe no one else is persistent enough to have acquired it." For the most part, she was joking. She knew as well as anyone that the Ringmaster had a bizarre pull, an aura that drew female employees to him like moths to a flame. But they seemed to be largely rebuffed by his cold refusals.
Elia, of course, was not so easily rebuffed.
"Is it a gift you still enjoy? That's the important question."