“Open up, baby.” You grinned again, but I sucked at my lip, reluctant to open my mouth. You raised your eyebrow at me, almost surprised that I wa... defying you. “Tough, huh?” You mocked, reaching a hand down and roughly squeezing at my breast. I whined as you increased your grip, but I stubbornly kept my mouth closed, gritting my teeth. I could see your patience running thin, and you roughly pulled at my hair again, jerking my head to the left. You leaned in close, whispering in my ear. “If you. Aedan was describing the night Highever fell; his voice broke as he described finding Oren and Oriana, defending Eleanor, saying goodbye to Rory, and then finding Bryce in the larder. Duncan had had to carry him out, not because he didn’t want to be a Grey Warden, but because he was so set on staying with his parents and defending them to his death. Aedan had opened up to me, as we’d travelled together over the past year, but I realised it must have hurt, not having someone who knew those. ”“How come you do know Midril?”“I travel the islands very frequently in the guise of an old Seer and Arguer. It is the common folks who greet me warmly.while I say some wise things they tell me many things about their clans and what happens in the world.”I said farewell to all the Keepers below and was once more in the actual keep. The first Keeper handed me a rolled document and said.”This document gives proof that you performed all duties well and to our satisfaction. With it, you may in. They were both small, elfin even, excepting for their breasts which were unfashionably large. These were constrained with whalebone bodices to bring them into a more acceptable shape. After all as her maid pointed out, Faith didn’t want to look ‘like a milk maid’. They shared too the same large, deep brown eyes. Some times Faith caught a flash in her mother’s eyes that told her that she wasn’t the quiet woman she appeared to be. Sometimes Faith felt things that she knew she wasn’t supposed to..