Re: Pandora and Wayne
Wayne's eyebrows didn't really shoot up, but they did rise. He hadn't expected something right out of a book he'd actually read, for once.
"Well, I could be that dance partner. If you don't mind me, of course," he told her. If she didn't want to know about him, he wasn't inclined to tell her much. Although, he thought, information traded in good faith helped build trust.
"I figure everyone's disowned by somebody at some point along the line." Not that that had happened to him, precisely, but he knew enough about his father to know he'd never come back to meet Wayne.
Dora was stunning, and quite out of his league, but what drew him to her was...unless he was mistaken, their ghosts were similar. Wayne finished off his drink (there'd been a lot of ice, he figured), and relished the warmth it gave him inside, like a comforting glowing fire.