Now, it appeared, her first period was about to start. He called her mother and she dealt with the ‘details’ with no fuss.Unlike when she had hit ...uberty, she thought. Her mother had called it ‘the curse’ and made her think she was dirty. Marie made Jesse feel she was special, now she was a woman; though she still worried what that might mean to Cavendish. Thirteen year olds were married mothers in some states, she looked at her daughter and thought ‘not yet please God’.Still, now there were. Never touch food with your left hand. Pass the port to the left. I assume you are house trained?”“I hope so, sir,” said Derek as it began to dawn on him that he had better mind his p’s and q’s at this dinner; he had never dined with royalty before.Chapter 50: DinnerThe moment the Embassy car dropped Derek at the main entrance to the Golden Palace, no side doors for this visit, he was escorted by an obsequious guard through the Throne Room and to a door behind the dais. From there a eunuch. Finally, she knew who she was and her role in life. For she was no longer Laura Stone, graduate student. Now she was Endava, warrior and guardian to her Lord, named after his one, true love. Her role was reflected in her new attire. Gone were the sweatshirt and baggy jeans she had worn to the lab; in their place was a suit of armor similar to that worn by the ancient Romans, with a breastplate, cuirasses, and shin-guards. Underneath her breastplate she wore a white tunic, below that a crimson. And, she mused, she saw the desire in their eyes as well as they gazed at her slim, beautiful body – her nipples pointing out in the cool air and an erotic flush covering her face and chest.But other soldiers still looked at her apprehensively. They must be wondering if they could really trust her, given what they knew of what had transpired in the past several days. One of the remaining mages frowned as he looked at her, and asked, "What does Partheon think of all this?" Partheon, alas, is the.