She Catches The Eye
By Seedee Beetoo
(Storyteller Droid of the Old Republic)
She was a stunning woman. Not just because she was very tall. Not because she had hair that flamed like a house on fire. Not because her legs went on for days or that her breasts gave the word "full" a new meaning. Her physical attributes were all this and more. No. What caused the young man who stood in front of her to stop everything he was doing and stare at her with rapt attention were her eyes. Large, and with long lashes, they were so vibrant a green as to put to shame the finest jade. And they held him in a gaze that never wavered, never faltered. Never eased up. He felt his mouth go dry even as his mind began to spin.
"What's my name?" Her voice was as cool as the mists on a Scottish moor and he felt his muscles start to relax for the first time since he'd found himself pinned by her stare. With the relaxing of his tense, and for some reason wary, muscles came an almost dizzying confusion in his mind that he couldn't explain. He was in a restaurant booth with an incredibly beautiful woman who was obviously interested in him. Trouble was, he couldn't remember how he got to the restaurant, let alone the booth. The last clear memory he had was of giving up his seat in a crowded subway car to a woman who'd caught his eye --
this
woman, in fact. Whose name he didn't even know.
"Are you sure you don't remember my name?" she asked with a smile.
"Of course I don't know your name, Beitris Laing!" he protested and just as suddenly clapped his hands over his mouth in shock. That was no lucky guess, not with a name like
that
. It was as if a curtain in his mind briefly lifted and her name tumbled onto his lips.
"Good boy, Timothy Hudson," said Beitris. "And what's your name, Timothy Hudson?"
Timothy opened his mouth with a cocky assurance, ready to utter his name. But he suddenly couldn't recall it. Try as he might he just couldn't remember his own name. Worse yet, he knew Beitris had just said it twice and he still couldn't remember it!
"What the hell have you done to me, you witch?"
"I would think that's obvious, little boy. I've used my witch powers and made you forget your name, among other things," Beitris replied.