"Why must I wear this?" she asked."You will be moving through the palaces where men might see you," came the disquieting reply, and her visions of ela...orate dinner parties faded.The visit to the old Emir was equally disturbing. When she and Prince Abdulla were safely in another room rather like the anteroom to the Emerald Palace's harem, but larger and with a second dais bearing a small throne on which the Emir sat. He spoke only to the Prince and only in Kobekistani of which she understood. She loved Dave and wanted nothing more than to make him happy but that was hard to do when she was living with guilt. She felt guilty that she hadn’t been able to provide a child for them but worse was the secret guilt that she held.Lately, Brittany had done a couple of things that she hadn’t told Dave about. It started quite innocently. She was searching yet again for information about fertility online. Unlike the multitude of times, she had searched before though she discovered that there was. "My wife of 25 years is normally a very nice person unless you do something that really goes against her grain. After being with her for so long I know how she reacts to certain stimuli so I try to avoid those situations at most costs. But the slow death of 13 hour days 5 days a week leaves me little time to live. All I do is drive to work and deal with the bitch of the world (my boss), work, drive home from work, eat dinner, shower, go to bed, wake up and do it all over again. Yeah, I have a. Their first torch was already dying, and he hastily lit the other one. Their way sloped upward, and once again he could make out faint marks of hammer and chisel where the way had been widened and smoothed. The tunnel floor dipped downward, rose, then dipped again. They splashed through a shallow runnel of clear water, and the two men paused to slake their thirst.With a final flaring leap, the flame of their last torch guttered out! Riggan gave a wordless cry of fear, and Mak's firm grip on his.