When shelooked down, however, that comfort soon dissipated. She desperatelytugged at the hem but that just pulled the front down revealing deeperclea...age. Beasely stopped tugging when her roots began to irritate. Her locks wereso plentiful and the bun she had used to confine them slipped. One byone strands of hair snaked out until the bun fell into a mass of hair.Blond curls draped down adding to the attractiveness and furtherdisclosing her once modest appearance. The dress hugged her hips. "Yes Milady." He answered."So the rumors that are making their way back to Mountain City are true?" Palina asked him."They have brought slaver raids almost to a halt in the lower portion of our territory Milady." The governor told her. "They destroyed the base camp first, wiping out every mercenary there. They left nothing but the frames of the buildings they did not destroy and an unmarked grave."Palina looked at Cantel who stood to her side. He nodded his head. "He is no fool Milady. It. I feel terrible abouteverything that’s happened and I want to make it up toyou. You go out back, get comfortable, and I’ll beright out.”“Alright,” I said, walked out to the deck and sat downat the table next to the hot tub. What I didn’t know –could never have known was that she was still deeplyupset about our recent spat and had heard that I wasreferring to her as that “trailer tramp” to mutualfriends (which I hadn’t). So she had. Power radiated from it, though only the vizier, Vessel of the First Seed, felt its waves. ‘I want you to melt this down,’ he said, almost grunting in discomfort as he spoke to the artisan. ‘I want you to melt this down, and then mix the slag with other metals, other silver ingots you have in your shop. The metal of this orb is exceedingly pure, and it must be mixed with less pure metals.’ Achnai thought to ask why, but held his tongue. If the vizier wanted this done, his will be done. ‘I will.