In Danger City, the Fringe and the Core are divided by an old freeway and a line nobody guards. Eden works a premium room in a house that sits right on it, a Doll with surgical eyes, a burned tongue and six years of rules that have kept her alive.
Tonight the Madam sends up a new client. A veteran with no history, no referral and a body mapped in old silver scars. He pays for the full hour in cash and seems more interested in talking than anything else. Then he says a name nobody in the city should know.
Hers. What follows is one hour of pours, confessions and quiet calculation between two people who knew each other long before either of them became what they are now. Both of them came into the room with a plan.
Both of them are being nice. Only one of them is walking out. An erotic neon noir short from the City of Dolls universe.
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