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easily everyone else wrote her off as wicked, ugly and Bad,
without noticing she was really idealistic, beautiful and irritatingly virtuous. 
Even for Good folk that was pretty fucking blind.
    And
no way had she stolen that shoe.  It was way above her criminal
skillset.  Granted, Letty was clever and scheming, but a successful B&E of
the palace…?  He could more easily imagine her leading the town’s people on a
strike for unionization than ninja-stealthing into a castle to crack a safe.
    Something
was very wrong here.
    The
door to Dr. White’s office burst open and Ramona stumbled in.  It only took
Marrok half a second to know that Esmeralda was no longer driving the good
doctor’s face and body.
    Now,
Scarlett was.
    He
would know that spiced apple scent anywhere.
    Marrok’s
eyebrows climbed, trying to figure out how they’d pulled off this new trick. 
Like some kind of bizarre three card monte game, he supposed it meant that
Esmeralda was now disguised as Scarlett and the real Ramona was still in the
dungeon disguised as Esmeralda.  Letty couldn’t do magic, so there was no spell
inhibitor on her ankle to prevent the witch from using a glamor on her, but why
had they bothered?
    Or
rather why had Scarlett bothered, since there was no doubt in his mind
whose plan this was.  His True Love was the only one in the share circle with
the balls to try a stunt like this.  Was she worried that he was going to rat
out the escape plot?  If so, why in the hell would she dig herself in even
deeper with this Ramona disguise?  What was she up to?
    The
woman was a fount of new and interesting ideas.
    “Dr.
White.  Hi.”  Scarlett/Ramona straightened her lab coat.  “Right.  Ummm… is
everything, okay?”  She teetered over to flop down in the chair next to Marrok,
as if the length of Ramona’s legs made it difficult for her to balance.  The
fairy topped Scarlett by at least eight inches, so the new taller body must
have been confounding her.
    Marrok
found himself smiling.  “You doing something new with your hair, Ramona?  You’re
looking a little… different today.”
    Scarlett
ignored him.  “What kind of trouble is he in?”  She demanded, still focused Dr.
White.  “Because, I know that he’s a complete and utter jackass, but… I
think he deserves another chance.”
    Ohhhh…
she was here to protect him.
    Despite
himself, Marrok’s heart turned over.  It was stupid as hell to risk herself to
try and help someone like him, but it was just about the nicest thing
anyone had ever done for him.  She’d apparently been serious about her All For
One speech.  That was… adorable.  Even in her ridiculous Ramona costume, he
could think of six hundred different things he wanted to do to her body to say
thanks.
    Scarlett
adjusted her lab coat again and kept up her persuasive speech to Dr. White.  “Tossing
Marrok in the dungeon at this point in his treatment will just undo all the
hard work I’ve put into making him less horrible.”
    “Oh,
I don’t mind doing hard, hard work with you, Doc.”  Marrok assured her.
    The
glare was the same, but Ramona’s flat gray eyes lacked the punch-to-the-stomach
purity of Scarlett’s crystalline blue gaze.  As much fun as it was to torment
her about the disguise, he really didn’t like looking at his True Love and not
seeing his True Love.  He missed the cherubic redheaded scowling at him. 
Letty’s curvy little body was much more enjoyable to mentally undress.
    “Don’t
worry, Ramona.”  Dr. White said coldly.  “Mr. Wolf isn’t in trouble.  I was
just enlisting his help in finding that damn glass slipper.”
    Marrok
felt Letty still.
    He
shot her a lazy smile.  “Yeah… It seems that Scarlett’s been holding out on us,
Doc.  You got any idea where she might have stashed Cindy’s shoe?”
    Gray
eyes flashed to his again, this time wide and a little scared.  “No!  No, I
have no idea where Scarlett put that slipper.  In fact, I’m not