Clarissa waved to him from a corner table across the restaurant, a heap of glossy bags beside her.
Giles joined her. She poured him some wine as he sat down.
“No need to ask how you did,” he smiled, raising his glass. “You must have half of Bond Street there.”
“All gift-wrapped too. How about you?”
His smile widened.
“You found something for Lois?” Clarissa was incredulous. “Show me what you bought her.”
“What do you think?” Inside the box Giles passed her, a golden leaping hare formed the hilt of silver paperknife, its dappled blade spotted with runes, like a magician’s dagger.
This is the first time I have joined this. For more information, look here:
http://jfb57.wordpress.com/100-word-challenge-for-grown-ups/
Isobel (and Cat)'s Blog 
I can only assume that you write for a living, Isobel! Lovely!
What a lovely thing to say!
well, gee, you take me on imagination-rides when you write!
Great story Isobel, do you realise you need to post the link on the site? On JBF – julia’s home page!
Oh crumbs, which is that? I put it here:
http://jfb57.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/100-word-challenge-for-grown-ups-week-28/
Is that right?
Aha I see it now in the comments! it’s fine! What classy characters and gift you invented, i can just hear them!
I’ve left it in three places now, Gilly! But I think the only last one was a correct one. 🙂
How fun Isobel! Going to be able to read more of your lovely writing! “what you bought her”~I thoroughly enjoyed your first 100 words for grown ups 🙂 And I found a new blog, Julia’s blog is interesting.
Very imaginative and creative; beautifully written too!
What a cool concept!
I feel a bit of a fraud, as I did not create the paperknife. I simply described one by Carol Mather http://www.carolmather.com/paperknives.html
Someone had given me the ink to the 100wcgu and I lost it. Thanks o Gilly, I eventually found my way back there. Maybe I’ll see moe of you there. 🙂
This is very clever – the prompt runs right over two people’s speech, but is seamless! The whole piece is very well written – well done. And by the way, I WANT that paperknife. Please. I’ll send my postal address.
Really nice to see you on the 100WC – you have upped the ante, raised the bar – whatever!
Sorry, but you can’t have the knife! It’s mine. Did you look at the link? Carol does wonderful stuff, but as the price of silver and gold have gone through the roof, she’s rather out of my reach now. Still, I go to her workshop and drool periodically…
Really enjoyed your style of writing. Clever on the punctuation too! Well to the 100WCGU
Typo sorry welcome to 100WCGU!
Congrats on your maiden 100WCFG; mine was this week too. I love all the different takes. I’m trying to figure out why Lois wanted the knife…
Thanks Ryan. I have reading some of the others and enjoying them. I could not manage to post comments on some though; problems with blogspot.
Oh, the knife. It is a beautiful and singular object, and Lois is a difficult person to please, so any presentbhas to be out of the ordinary.I imagined her also as someone with an ordered desk, the type who would use a paperknife!
See you over there again. 🙂
This is, as others have said, a super opening piece for the 100WCGU. Thank you so much for joining us and I do hope you will become a regular. I just loved that detailed description of the knife. I think Lois is also someone who loves beautiful things.
One little picky bit – can you put the prompt in next time. It is my fault because as Ryan pointed out, it doesn’t actually say that anywhere! Having said that, you won’t be shot for missing it out! 😉
Relieved to hear I shan’t be shot! So do I need to copy your instructions into my post? I have not even tried o insert the logo!