He hurried up the path, ushering the girls before him and wondering how he was going to fit everyone inside the Chapel. Bloody storms. He hoped Aran a...d Elaina didn’t get caught in it, wherever they were.CHAPTER 13.1: PriestessIn a wide, circular room deep beneath the Temple, Amina sat cross-legged and naked opposite an equally nude Sara. The bearskin rug beneath their bottoms was the only furnishing in an otherwise bare and undecorated chamber. Sunstones blazed hotly in their niches within the. I adore you. I wish you were old enough that I could go out with you. I’d snap you up in a heartbeat.”“You’re no hag, yourself,” he said, grinning.“This isn’t funny, Bobby.”“Okay. How about this? What if I wished you thought of me like you used to, before you found the wand?”She ruminated on that. That might work. She’d always thought he was a fine young man, but she hadn’t had such blatant sexual thoughts about him, back then.“Okay,” she finally said. “Remember, you’ll have to really mean. Eventually they were ushered into the bedroom side by side and stood, wondering what to do next.The Emir stood in front of the two concubines and looked them over, contrasting women; one white, the other olive skinned; one blonde, the other very dark haired; one tall and slim, the other shorter and plump; the one wary, the other eager. Placing a hand on each of the shaven mounds he was amused by the different reactions; one pair of legs snapped tight shut in a reflex attempt to stop his fingers. His smile of gratitude was very real as was his quick ‘krup’ of thanks. Major Werachon mounted the extra horse that the messenger had brought, which was still there.“Lead the way,” one of the Prince’s military advisers told Captain Prawit and me, and we started back to the unit with the coach directly behind us and followed by a part of his escort.“I hope that Chatchai has gotten the place cleaned up some,” Prawit said to me quietly as we rode toward the unit. I had also been worried about that.