I was a princess!A surge of petulance rippled through me. I shook my head, my strawberry-blonde hair dancing about my shoulders. I clenched my fists a...d relaxed them. I just had to grab it. Just reach out and take it and then bury my face in another musty tome. “Come on, Ava,” I muttered to myself. “Just grab it. You can dive into one more. You can do it, Ava.”“But should you?” a voice announced from behind.I gasped and squeaked. Arms went around me. Strong, familiar, and comforting. I relaxed. “Look you knackers me out with you needs so give us a break and get your own.” she replied sleepily, and then she jumped bolt upright, “Bloody hell what’s the time.”“Seven of the Clock,” I advised, “Dawn came hours ago.”“And the cock crew?” she demanded“Yes the cock crowed,” I confirmed.“Then us be common law wed!” she declaimed.“Oh excellent that means I don’t have to pay you!” I declared sarcastically.“But I gives it to me mum or will when I gets owt,” she replied awkwardly.“You really should. Now her nude body in full view of the Sheikh. She felt his eyes roam over her. His eyes seemed to burn with arousal. She could not look away from him. ‘What did you do with your nipple and bellybutton piercings?’ he asked her staring at her bare flesh. ‘Airport scanners.’ The Turkish bath was so hot sweat started to pour from all her pores. Azziza slowly poured cold water over Rosebud to cool her down. All dirt and sweat sluicing away. Her skin turning pinkish. Azziza rubbed shampoo in her. None seemed open to Verothlen's proposal of a commonwealth government. Endalan seemed to be in the beginning stages of a fey bitterness to Esfalan's eye, and the older mage seemed to notice it, too."Father." Endalan turned to look at Esfalan, the evening meal seeming to have passed unnoticed by the older man."Father, I have had a strange thing occur this day. There is much I do not feel the liberty to speak of, but I will say this. The humans have developed a new magic in Feldare, the power of.