On one extreme, I was sure she’d open the door completely naked. On the other, I just knew I was going to get a shocked expression and a slap across...the face. Naturally, I got something in the middle. I knocked on the storm door lightly… nervously. What am I doing? There’s no way this will work. When she opened the door, a huge smile beamed across her face, then vanished into an embarrassed smirk. ‘Hi there’ was all I could get out. What do you say in a moment like this? ‘Oh hi… um…’ she. ”She held out her hand and a scroll appeared, identical to the one she had given him. “Should you find a way to enter my court via the Underworld itself, I will allow you to leave here with your dear Cecilia. Per your addendum, the two of you will leave unharmed, as well as intact. Hmm.” She rolled up the scroll and tucked it away in mid-air, clearly using some sort of extra dimensional magic. “I’m curious, Caretaker. On your way in, did you happen to ... meet anybody?”That was an odd question. .. really?” I whispered.Zevran shrugged. “Not really. I have spent a bit of time getting to know them, yes? But the fact remains that you are a beautiful young woman, alone with many men who have little hope of satisfying any ... urges ... for quite some time. If I truly suspected anyone, they would be dead, and his Majesty did a thorough job vetting them as well, I believe, but you must be prepared to defend yourself if need be, yes?”I gaped at the two men, mind racing. I thought back to some. How over the top does someone have to be to buy books based on the color of their spines? There were little knickknacks scattered around the room, displays of cute little things, with hearts featuring heavily. (Got the image of this room in your mind? Now make it about two times pinker and three times frillier, and you'll have it about right.) Even without any posters of the latest boy-band heartthrobs, it was still a horrifyingly girly room. No self-respecting guy would be seen dead in a room.