"Dear Boss" [13]

  "You look different."

  "Does it matter?"

  "Not really," Svipe bowed over the bridge, "-you made a good impression."

  "Did I?"

  "Yeah," he smiled, "-the lady is on her way."

Headlights beamed from the bridge's other side, under the scale of buildings populating the '-citizen's region'. Svipe's pleased expression. The unnaturally silent port at two in the morning, '-what are they up do?'

Breaks strained a high-pitch squeal. Doors shut, a lady dropped from the driver's side, walked to the bridge, turned at Igna, and rose her cap, "-you," she pointed dressed in a trucker's outfit, "-I choose you."

  "Pardon?" 

She moved into his face and said, "-I choose you."

Igna calmly watched through the frameless glasses, "-really," he grabbed her shoulders, "-you think you can tame me?"