It was nothing. It meant nothing. She knew that. But even so, she seemed unable to recover.
The rest of the show dragged on in a horrible blur until finally she stood there, under the glare of the lights, as naked as the day she'd been born. She stared away, at some fixed point that kept her from having to face the men in the crowd as they crowded close and called to her crudely - telling her to bend over and to spread her legs for them.
She knew she shouldn't...but she couldn't help but look, search the nearest faces for that pair of blue eyes.