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Ohh, these are good people!

As a language geek, I was proud of myself for figuring out all the Dutch — a language I've never studied even informally — except vanavond.* And oh! those last two words, and the chain reaction they trigger!:

"... jonge vrouw."

... Erin's lips shape the last two words ... and now, now those eyes meet his ... looking him squarely in the face for the first time, and he's a liar if he ever says the amazed, half-disbelieving hope sticking tiny pinpricks in the unnatural age of her expression doesn't melt his merry outlaw's heart. ...

Out of all but the barest corner of his view, Quinn is suddenly smiling.

Heel hartelijk bedankt!

A few typos, mostly from missing the shift key:

• worry about anyway. that much
→ anyway. "that much

• Thee other two will be back later.
→ The

• under the kitchen lights. even a little visibility
→ lights. Even

• know those two. fuckin' miracle workers
→ two. Fuckin'

• a la Americaine
→ à l'américaine

• "Erin, he says slowly. "U bent van harte welkom hier, jonge vrouw."
→ "Erin," he

*(Of course, for all I know these phrases are nearly transparent to everyone here.)