<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/9EwU4iX.jpg)<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span><div align="center"><strong> <span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Steffy – CC</span></strong> </div></div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 11pt;">Admittedly, seeing my friend absconded by the baloney authority has placed me in a very bitchy mode.<br/><br/>For some reason, calling the office to work on logistics gets me Darcy and not Ursula.  Ursula can’t talk at the moment.  Darcy is more into the technicalities, what she’s read, what the research shows—things that don’t get us to where we need to be.<br/><br/>And O’Grady is inferring much of my conversation with Darcy, giving his view of essential points.  Frustrating.<br/><br/>I feel bad.  The look Jaclyn gave me—that could be her last look, like forever!  <br/><br/>I open my phone/pic app and, somehow, I did get a pic of Jaclyn and Erdmann—fuzzy, but it’s good enough.  I hope.  We just need to establish that he took her.<br/><br/>Maybe I should call du Monde.  Tell her what’s going on, maybe she’d rescue Jaclyn.<br/><br/>The du Monde idea proves how frazzled and desperate I’ve become.  That goes into the soft-no file.  <br/><br/>I explain to Peter who has been talking to Ari (I believe).  “Darcy gave me a lot of information.”  I offer no commentary on the fact that it’s not at all useful for the moment.  “Darcy has a classmate who went onto law school and she thinks has been to court, like actually in a courtroom.”  I roll my eyes.  “The good part is that the international rigamarole, the ‘how-dare-you’ stuff was what she really enjoyed.  Plus pet law.”  I roll my eyes again.<br/><br/>“I told Darcy to set up some lawyer interviews.  Then we have to figure where Jaclyn is (I think).  Or maybe we don’t.  Just go to court and sue the ‘eff’ out of the FAI.”    I’m pleased that I’ve remained ladylike and only said ‘eff’.  <br/><br/>And then my thoughts turn to what I should wear when interviewing the lawyers—something chic, stylish, concerned, cute, plus other concepts to be thought through.<br/></span>