The interior of Lucy's Brain, as of today:
Ball ball ball ball ball ball ball ball ball.
This wasn't in fact because my ear was being fucked roundly by Ra's massive, ludicrously meaty robo-dick and my brain was being
mashed
into the form of a happy fuckslut. That'd be absurd, if that was happening, then my only thought would be
cock cock cock cock cock cock.
Duh. You dummy. No, it was because...
The fucking
Ball
was happening. The Gala, Grand Galloping Or Otherwise, the big shindig, the hootenanny, the hoedown, the whatzitbop where all the spinnadoos and dresses were going to happen at. Like, and even some real words too. And I felt woefully, hilariously, stupidly unprepared, even as Abby stroked my hair with a comb, and Georgette paced back and forth before me.
"And you enter the room by..."
"Waiting by the master of ceremonies for them to call my name and my ticket and if I lose the ticket, I ask the MC, the miggidy mack daddy-" I blushed as Georgette shot a glare at me. "...I ask him for a new ticket. I also never call him the miggedy mack daddy. No matter how much I want to jump jump."
"Honestly, Lucy, you will be the end of me..." Georgette muttered, continuing her pacing as Abby giggled softly.
"I apologize in advance for mucking everything up," I said, biting my lip. "Auuhhh, I know nothing!"
Georgette turned to face me. Her hands went to her hips. "ChassΓ© step?" Her voice had the harsh snap-crack of command.
I blinked, sitting up. "Tems levΓ©, right foot forward, take weight." I stood, demonstrating, my leggings shuffling around my hips. "Following foot closes behind leading foot, thirdy-oop, take weight, leading foot extends again, woo-oop, step close step
hop
!" I shuffled, then twirled. "And then twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!" I spun around and Abby, who had remained on the bed, laughed and clapped her hands together.
"And the proper method to dissuade a gentleman or gentlelady from their flirtations using the fan?" Georgette said, her voice still stern.
"Drawing through the hand, if they're a huge dingus. Twirling in the left if they're just annoying, drawn across the forehead if I just want them to chill a tiny bit," I said. Then I gasped. "Oh my gosh. All those words you said actually stuck in my brain! You're amazing, Georgette!"
"Well." Georgette harrumphed. "You are a...passable student."
"EEE!" I squealed. "Can I hug you?"
"I...suppose..." Georgette grumbled, then flushed as I flung my arms around her, hugging her tightly. Georgette patted my head -- then, muttering. "And, of course, we need to get you a
dress
and run you through all the steps while in a proper dress." She nodded to herself, her cheeks glowing even more red as she tried to ignore me muttering under my breath 'hug hug hug hug.'
"It has been rather silly to see a girl in boy's clothes doing girl dances," Abby said, nodding. "Normally, when a girl in boy's clothes does the dances, she does the boy's steps."
"Yes...well, you...know, a proper lady does not narrate everything she does, Young Miss," Georgette grumbled, pushing me away.
"Lucy gasped, pushed away by her stern, yet loving mentor," I muttered, sotto voce. "And yet, within her whirring clockwork heart, her coil boiler was bubbling with intense emotions..."
"I am not a tea kettle!" Georgette declared.
"So, where do we get a dress? Go down to Target, buy some dresses?" I asked, curiously. "but it's a Space Target? ...or whatever the British version of Target is, cause I don't know thanks to me being an American and, thus, completely oblivious to all things that aren't directly in my line of sight." I nodded, sagely. "Did you know God created wars to teach American kids geography, and it still doesn't work cause if you held a gun to my head, I still couldn't tell you
where
Afghanistan is." I threw up my hands.
"It's on Earth, innit it?" Abby suggested, cheerfully.
"Your...Americas invaded Afghanistan? Whatever for?" Georgette asked.
"I dunno," I said, shrugging. "...well, I mean, I
do
know, but it's depressing and complicated."
"As many things from your world seem to be," Georgette said, then shook her head. "And no, we do not go to a...Target...be it in space or not. Rather, we have called for a Beatrice."
My eyes widened. "Is she a giant bee?"
Georgette put her finger to her temple. "No."
"Dang," I muttered.
"Beatrices are machines who are handle sewing, fitting, the construction of clothing," Georgette said. Seeing my mouth open, she cut me of: "Yes. They are..." She looked to the ceiling. "Aesthetically pleasing."
"Well, yeah, so is a sunset, but I don't wanna make sweet love to an orange sky," I muttered to Abby, just loudly enough to be sure that Georgette could hear me -- while Abby giggled uncontrollably.
"Miss!" She paused. "Beatrices are very...ah..." She made a vague gesture, then kicked one of her legs under her skirts.
"Legs for days?" I asked.
Abby blushed, and nodded.
"
This
Beatrice is not going to be under your direct service," Georgette said, her voice sternly warningly in a sternly warningly fashion. "She is a freelancer of sorts, some kind of..." She flipped her hand. "Novelist in her free time. Not that I've ever read a thing written by her." She sniffed, very intently and I grinned.
"Novelist, huh?" I asked, wiggling my eyebrows at her.
"Recall lesson five?" Georgette asked, narrowing her eyes at me.
"Yup!" I said. "Repress your gag reflex by-"
"Ladies do not
wiggle
their eyebrows suggestively!" Georgette barked.
***
I was practicing sword work with Ra and chatting about history while Jenny fiddled with one of her horses when The Beatrice arrived. Ra was still drilling me on the parries and foot work, but she seemed to be fairly pleased by my progress. Ra nodded and then stepped backwards as I lowered my arm, grinning cheerfully at the burly Napoleonic war-robot.