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On the day of her leaving, Vinette and Lina went for coffee together. Vinette had not yet told anyone what she was going to study and she wanted to give Lina some hope of future by telling her the plan for them both. The smiley waiter welcomed the girls, until the glare cleared from his eyes and he saw who it was. He made it plain that Vinette was unwelcome. She was trouble. She dared to speak what had long remained unspoken. How she saw into people's private lives was proof of her satanic spawning. The whole town had an understanding that what happened in private homes, stayed there. No questions asked, no police required. Yet, for the past 15 years, a child who rarely walked the nighttime streets of Visible had an uncanny knowing of what happened behind closed doors. It was as though she saw through the walls and disagreed with their normalcy. She was immorality. She was nighttime lifting.

With nothing to lose, Vinette stood atop one of the round cafe tables with their starched, virginal white scalloped table-clothes. Although she regarded pornography as unacceptable, Vinette acted out a tabletop pole dance that her male peers told her they loved to watch, in their rooms at nighttime. Their excited descriptions of female subjugation burned into her soul leaving a stench that she had been unable to rid herself of. The stench kept a negative memory of the descriptions alive. Instead of thrusting herself against a pole though, Vinette thrust her pointer finger toward particular people targets. In a seductive and mournful tone, Vinette sung the truth of the nighttime occurrences in Visible. Correctly, she named the preferential abuses of each of the men present: domestic violence, sexual abuse, rape, bestiality, torture, her truth went on. She was right of course; these hidden crimes were Visible hallmarks. No body new could stay, and nobody there could leave. Except for Vinette, who was the only person to leave for decades. Visible was glad to have her gone.

A few of the Cafe patrons told her so much. Nevertheless, they also told her that she would be back because Visible men were under her dark skin. Content to have her moment of light, Vinette suggestively turned to face Lina. The description of the next fours years of accelerated study to become a lawyer was bad enough. How would Lina survive in Visible without her allied savior for four years? However, to know that Vinette's intentions were to return to Visible, to open a Women's Legal Service, to

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