”As intriguing as I found that statement, I didn’t want to entertain it. “Look, Alyssa, I’m married, and it’s really not a good idea. You ca... understand that, right?” Now her skirt was coming off. Her light blue panties looked funny beneath the maroon bra, but the silly awkwardness of her youthful undergarments turned me on more at that moment than anything out of Victoria’s Secret could have.“Well, that’s not a problem, either,” Alyssa said with a dismissive snicker. “I’ve been with married. I dedicated our love to Menkeret, the Lord of Elision, when I traced his name upon your back.” “I am honoured,” he says seriously.“But now I am checking your pride, O lowly dilruba player and marking you as a penitent before the Great Goddess, the all – mother yonder; holy, yet nameless as she is.”Though I jest, I am stern voiced; only my eyes tell him that I am still in a playful mood.The lamps burn low now in the Lapis Chamber. I could fetch oil to replenish them but I find the gloom most. .. I remember...David. Tall and handsome, standing there in his dark trousers and blue shirt. His tie undone, no ... just loosened. And his coat, the long white lab smock that doctors wear, the pockets overflowing with devices and things and stuff. I loved him then. That first day when I'd seen him, but he hadn't seen me yet. Love at first sight.I followed him inside a few moments later and he wasn't there at first, but then he came back into the front office from wherever in the back he'd. As long as someone was wearing the medallion, the spell persisted. No wonder Nat couldn’t break the spell. We will have to go for a walk and see if I have removed it or not.”Huntress’s vambrace replied, “Thank you, Paladin Darcy. You have done your Queen here, a great service even though she is not a Queen Wizard. You may wish to strengthen the spells on that medallion, as it needs some work. The other entity was not doing her job, which is why mine has taken over.”Darcy agreed and added some.