Lone Star 02 (2010)
Lone Star 02
“He gave its front and side entrances a wide berth, jumping the high board fence that separated the house’s back-yard from a neighbor’s property, then flitting like a phantom from tree to tree and shrub to shrub, until he’d reached the rear of the house.
Ki peered up through the darkness at the bordello’s exterior. The architect who’d designed the place must have done his work while high on opium. The style was an ill-conceived mess of gingerbread: there were ornamental eaves, scroll-sawn window frames, and what appeared to be half-rotted-away, Ital ianate neo-classic balusters.
Ki shook his head, muttering in disgust. He’d take clean, tidy, clapboard anytime. It was true that the building’s excesses offended his Japanese-born sense of simplicity, but his objections were more practical than esthetic.
What it looked like was beside the point. It was going to be very difficult to climb.
Ki was dressed in worn denim jeans, a collarless cotton twill shirt, and a loose, many-pocketed well-b...roken-in brown leather vest.MoreLess
Ki peered up through the darkness at the bordello’s exterior. The architect who’d designed the place must have done his work while high on opium. The style was an ill-conceived mess of gingerbread: there were ornamental eaves, scroll-sawn window frames, and what appeared to be half-rotted-away, Ital ianate neo-classic balusters.
Ki shook his head, muttering in disgust. He’d take clean, tidy, clapboard anytime. It was true that the building’s excesses offended his Japanese-born sense of simplicity, but his objections were more practical than esthetic.
What it looked like was beside the point. It was going to be very difficult to climb.
Ki was dressed in worn denim jeans, a collarless cotton twill shirt, and a loose, many-pocketed well-b...roken-in brown leather vest.MoreLess
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