“Have you ever tried to induce that state on your own,” she suddenly asked.Alan thought a moment then replied, “No, the thing is I don’t even ...now how I do it. I’d try to induce it if I had any idea of how I could.”Truda sighed then a new light shown in her eyes. “Can you tell me anything about this third person? Did you feel anything at all? I know you found the doctor’s, the assistant’s and our DNA there. What of this third person?”Alan almost smacked his head when Truda mentioned this. “That. He cupped his hands under my chin to raise my face so he could look intomy eyes. "Then they are fools."More than anything in the world, I wanted him to kiss me at that moment.And then he did.I melted into the kiss.Finally, he broke it off, and pointed to a door. "Here are the women'squarters," he said, and then knocked on the door. A large woman openedthe door."You must be the one the King said to expect," she said to me."She is. Prepare her for her audience. And treat her with all duecourtesy.. Yet none of that has helped one bit. The man you were betrothed to for over a decade is now dead and gone, lost in a terrible bridge collapse on his way to meet you.Count Lucas Illenda seemed to be quite nice, but he spent so little time in the capital that most of your impression of him was built up through letters. You've spent most of your life in the royal palace on the eastern edge of the capital and he may as well have been allergic to the city. The two of you spent so little time. Yes, bored. Like every kid, I'd eagerly awaited the end of school and the nice, long summer. But it didn't take me long to get bored, either.So, I got on the computer looking for friends online. And, Sandra was there.Now, Sandra Knox is in my grade and she's really pretty. Short blond hair, and she's really short, too. She's very short, maybe, four-ten or so. But, cute, real cute.So, I say 'hi' and she asked me if I wanted to come over and chat face to face, she was bored, too. Must be.