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Silver jeweled buttons? Pointed ears? Maybe they'd wash off while he was in the shower. Speaking of which, she'd better hurry up. The scarlet tunic was wool-that was an easy one-with appliques of felt and leather on the breast and at the elbow-length sleeves. The front laced shut, the vexed grommet question having been settled by interleaving a thin piece of punched leather between the two layers of wool so that the rawhide theng wouldn't cause the wool to stretch. Once more the fabric was sumptuous, the workmanship superb.
He came out again with a large bowl of rice, following Naomi who bore a large bowl of ginger stir-fry chicken that smelled wonderful at eleven o'clock at night and far too many hours after a supper Ruth hadn't eaten anyway. The table service was assembled with the ease of long practice; Naomi liked to cook and the rest of them liked to eat, and that-as much as any mysterious agenda-was what held the five of them together. That, and, perhaps, the fact that all of them were equally unsuited, somehow, for the space and time they were in now.
Naomi looked at his clothes, and at Ruth's face. She did not ask any further questions. "Looks like the first thing you need is some more inconspicuous clothes," Naomi said. " It was Ruth's personal belief that if the Creature from the Black Lagoon itself showed up in the living room gnashing its gills and dripping slime, Naomi would hand it a towel. Ruth had seen her outface most of the forms of street weirdness that New York had to offer, as well as a number of the more offensive forms of college bureaucracy, and had yet to see Naomi flapped-if that was what you called the opposite of being unflappable.