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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  anything pleasant.

  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.