. I think the taint reflects that. I didn’t give it any thought, until we found you in that dungeon cell. Because ... that’s how Faren feels to me...”I stared at the pretty dwarf, gobsmacked for the second time in a single conversation. I didn’t know what to think. I had never been one to believe much in fate, but my story – my return to Thedas – would give anyone second thoughts. The Architect, and Flemeth for that matter, both claimed to be able to see the future in a limited way ... and. “He was just so cute when he was a kid,” Lexi rested her head on her hand and looked at me. “That combined with what he said just drove me insane. Plus he was dangling his innocence in front of me like a string in front of a cat. And damn did I want that string.” “Why are you telling her this?” I asked.“I figured she’d want to know more about you and your sneaky ways.”“Whoa don’t try and act like I’m some jackass who says whatever he needs too to win a girl’s heart. I meant what I said, to you,. The Gunny got her up before 03:00, and she'd needed the caffeine in the tea she'd had fairly badly.Lenore was in her Officer Candidate SDB uniform, the single gold star on her jacket sleeve shining brightly in her peripheral vision. She was standing just to the side of the elevator bank of the hotel, waiting for her charges to step out of the elevator. A moment later it was obvious to her which guests of the hotel were whom she was waiting for ... the uniforms on the two younger men were gaudy,. He could hear more than one person’s breathing, although he could see nothing and nobody through the fog. Who could they be? Were Cody and Roberts making a move against him? Maybe they had bribed his bodyguards to sell him out. No! They didn’t have the nerve and anyway attacking him like this in his own home was not their style. Could it be the Maltese? Those bastards would stick at nothing – but, again, not this sort of sophistication. Axes and sawn-off shotguns were more like them. .