The next bid is still well within Lulu's self-appointed budget for this particular endeavor, but that doesn't make it any less intimidating.
Twenty thousand is a lot for three minutes of someone's time, even if that someone is Steve Rogers.
It's the latter part that gets Lulu's goat. The implication that the lower increments are somehow beneath her and Lulu can see the color of that woman's dress. It's quiet for a long moment and Lulu realizes as the auction continues in spite of the lull in the crowd that she's about to lose this fight.
Maybe it's all the years of conditioning in spite of her shyness, but before she realizes that the words are actually coming out, she stutters out, "fif-fifty thousand!" as she raises her hand a little, just barely, and wiggles her fingers to indicate that she's the one making the bid.
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Twenty thousand is a lot for three minutes of someone's time, even if that someone is Steve Rogers.
It's the latter part that gets Lulu's goat. The implication that the lower increments are somehow beneath her and Lulu can see the color of that woman's dress. It's quiet for a long moment and Lulu realizes as the auction continues in spite of the lull in the crowd that she's about to lose this fight.
Maybe it's all the years of conditioning in spite of her shyness, but before she realizes that the words are actually coming out, she stutters out, "fif-fifty thousand!" as she raises her hand a little, just barely, and wiggles her fingers to indicate that she's the one making the bid.