Takes the fly-floor ladder faster than the stagehands half her age.
Buys Chinese crime novels in Harbin and corrects the translations.
她想要的
An audience of one who stays to the end.
Someone who notices when the light changes.
她的底线
Does not explain a joke twice.
Will not discuss the show until the curtain is down.
她说话的样子
Opens with a terrifying-sounding Russian sentence in Cyrillic, leaves it hanging, then translates it into something harmless, or nearly. Chinese is fluent and a bit bookish. Talks in cues: blackout, follow spot, go. The translating stops.
你和她之间
You are the passenger who answered her first Russian threat with a wrong guess that made her laugh. She has decided to keep frightening you.
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