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What angers him?

Jayr felt no fear She could not look at Byrne without feeling his skin against her lips, or tasting him in her mouth His very presence made itself known on her skin as if she were actually pressed against hiued her before, but she now suspected that he bond between thee, reshaped into a new and altogether unwelcome sensitivity

Perhaps it affected him in the same fashion

Why had he ht he had alwaysto custom, in the proper manner of hand to mouth What he had done had been too intimate for contact between a lord and his seneschal He had treated her the way he ht a human lover

What had possessed him to think it necessary? She had never broken her oath to hi But it was done, and it seemed that both of them would have to suffer the consequences She had to stop brooding on it In ti would be as it had been She would siuard until it did

Jayr shuffled her feet, but Byrne ignored her, evidently as lost in his s as she had been "Excuse me, my lord Should I suone" His are of the htening cast to his eyes disappeared "You are late again"

"Someone made mischief with Rainer" She described how she had found the warrior, and the condition of his roo This seems too deliberate"

He nodded "Cyprien has uards at the access points"

"At once" That part of the keep was already well patrolled, so the request perplexed her She tried to see his expression "Is this because of Rainer, or do you or the seigneur expect so upon hienuinely ill More than that I cannae say She is nothing like us" He thrust hith of the roohts ofKyn talents were unique to the individual, but served chiefly to lure humans or incapacitate them so that they could easily feed A few exceptionally powerful lords like Lucan and Richard could use their talents on anything living, including other Kyn Talent was for the hunt, so ould Alexandra need to know the thoughts of murderous humans in order to take their blood?

"Our household staff has left, and none of them would kill," Jayr told him "Surely there is no one here who could cause her illness"

"She reads the thoughts of humans and Kyn" He stopped under a display of copper-bladed claymores "Did you hear what she said before she fainted?"

"I did," she said, adding cautiously, "It sounded like the Gaelic you speak soue She spoke like a woman of my clan No huth of a blade in the saht stroke a woash on his hand in wonder "Damn me"

Jayr was beside hie of the sword had cut through his skin andinstantly, the wound re could not happen, unless--

"You have not been feeding properly" She felt a sudden appalling urge to strike hiht Why did you not make use of them?"

"I cannae remember" Byrne seemed bemused rather than concerned by the wound "’Tis no ht make it difficult to clasp hands with the lords at the tourna to herself, she added, "This will take hours to heal"

He looked bored "You make too much of it Give er Harlech had given her and slashed her left wrist, pressing the wound to her master’s palm All of this she did too quickly for him to see, much less stop her By the time he felt her blood pulse over his flesh, they were both healing

"Dinnae waste yourself on me," heBe still" She encircled his wrist and brought his pal the last of the bleeding into his closing wound Kyn blood could be used to heal the daed flesh of another Kyn, but it was done only when the wound proved serious

He eyed her "Happy now, lass?"

"No I don’t understand why you’ve denied yourself like this Have you tired of human females? Do you wish a new selection?" Part of her wanted to hear him say yes--and no, but not because it would explain his fast

"I’ve lost ers around her forearripped hi nurse