THEY ASSURED MAGDA THE BANDages would come off tomorrow.
Since they were
going to be stuffing her body with enough plasmic explosives to vapourise a small city she had them do some cosmetic surgery, just for kicks -- Mickey Mouse
ears and cute bunny arse and that sort of thing.
Mustafa
always said I would be a stunner if only I had a tail.
She wondered if her little polyglot California coven of suicide bombers and
artistes would receive her back into their arms, or shun her as a lipstick terrorist, an airhead anarchist, shrugging her off with "She
only wants to blow herself up because it's cool."
They shrug off the fact
that they, too, wanted to be Terminator, Robocop, Freddy, Doraemon, or whatever when they grew up. She was just playing out a fantasy, like the rest of them.
And Magda thought: I will be the most beautiful woman in the
world.