”He did as commanded.David began to pick at the strings as Maacah walked to the door, her bare feet tapping lightly on the stone floor. Her robes we...e thin, and of a fine quality. They were purple in color, a rarity in this time reserved mainly for royalty.Maacah walked back, standing between David and Uriah. She began to dance as was customary for her to do for the king. He respected her above all his wives, not commanding but requesting. She ran her hands up her robe and through her thick. The passage we followed ran mostly in an easterly direction but did have several twists and turns, high sections and small drops to navigate.We had to climb up through some very tight sections before it started angling back down. I wasn’t in a hurry to widened passages unless I felt it was warranted, it was a massive cave system, and many passages were not that interesting or finished in dead ends.Mind you, smacking my head several times when I tried to follow my shorter counterparts did. " She whispered to him. "I will be sound again." Then she looked up at him a second time. "Then you can make me hurt a few days, no?"Harlen chuckled at her boldness. She went through bouts of that, he was noticing. One moment she was a shy child, then the next a bold and wanton woman. He supposed it had to do with the 'fey, ' as she called it. It was part of her, and he had to accept it. It was what helped her make statements like that, but it was also what guided her to terrify and offend. ” We looked at our place cards as we approached the judge at the end of the chute. She got me by two-tenths of a second. The winner was a second and a half ahead of us.Jock and Mr. Patterson met us when we left the chute with bottles of water and towels.“Wait until Livy hears you let a girl besides her beat you,” Jock laughed.“You know how I feel about fast girls, coach,” I said. “I’m thinking of adopting this one.”“She stays at North,” Patterson said. “They’re talking about awarding the state.