Mika''s job wasn''t all bad. There were the nice young men eager to please as


    much as to be pleased. There were the travelers who wanted ears to hear their tales


    just as much as to have a night to remember. There were the disgruntled husbands who


    merely wanted a kinder warmer touch. They weren''t rare, but neither were they


    common. No, her usual clientele were the ugly, the grotesque, the controlling, and the


    cruel who wanted to leave a girl in tears with bruises and teeth marks. So when they


    told her that her contract had been sold, she harbored no hope that her future contained


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    When she entered the back room used for business she found herself rather


    perplexed. A slightly younger mirror image of herself stared back with a stupid youthful


    grin. It spoke to how worn out she felt that it took her perhaps thirty seconds to realize it


    was Rin. Behind her younger sibling was Rin''s Oni-Kai friend or girlfriend or something.


    She hadn''t taken the time to figure that one out yet. It took another few moments before


    it hit her. Rin had bought her contract. Mika threw her arms around her little sister and


    openly sobbed.