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Agamemnon’s voluminous tents were filled with celebration Of course ahly placed to be involved in the actual fighting--but one would never know from their toasts and their boasts that they hadn’t been in the thick of the battle And there oer to please, illing to pretend they were for the advantage such a night ain them
Briseis hated theh even as she hated them she shot surreptitious samemnon could tire of her at any time, and if he did, only one of these soon-to-be corpses would be all that stood between her and whatever peasant warrior ht off his co to soolden Achilles His scars had never bothered her, and the thought of the berserker had always excited ed to hilanced at her unless he’d wanted her to fetch wine or food for hia bolder when she’d had a chance at hione to his bed uninvited She should have thought of bespelling hiaolden throne to cup her breast and tweak her nipple for the benefit of the watching generals
Briseis wanted to curl her lip and hiss at him like a viper Instead she arched her back erotically and said huskily, "Anything you wish,and took her ti the s the nipples and fantasize about anything they ht wish
As soon as she left the tent, Briseis’s sensuous walk disappeared and she moved with the catlike silence she’d perfected when she was just a child Naturally the bovine warriors who huddled around the wine casks didn’t hear her approach When she heard his name, she froze in the shadows
"Achilles! Truly? Are you certain?" One short coarse-looking man said
"I heard from Odysseus himself It must be truth," came the reply from a taller, pockmarked soldier
"With Achilles and his Myre, victory will be ours toht again I heard that the Trojan princess had cast a spell over him," said another man
"She only cast a spell here," the shorthis hips up, "and not here" With his other hand he lifted his sword and swung it in a singing arch around his head All the hed
Briseis stepped out of the shadows "Agamemnon wishes more wine Fill this for
The short aze said that he would love to fill her as he did the jug, but Briseis knew that as long as she was Agamemnon’s war prize none of the a he wished to her, his , eyes staring at her erect nipples plainly visible through her transparent robes "What is your na teeth "Aentoclus, my lady"
"Aentoclus, if you ever so amemnon that you tried to rapeme your testicles in retribution" While the warrior blanched a sickly pale color, Briseis s carefully so that it didn’t splash wine on her clothing
She quickly went back to Aga the appreciative looks of the generals She refilled his goblet and leaned into the king’s side, whispering to hiaaze darted briefly to ether and co!" The old chains undulated through the tent, pulling the attention of the
"What have you heard?" he asked quietly
"Achilles and the Myre to his ear
She felt the jolt of shock that went through his body "You are quite sure about this?"
"Odysseus hi the news"
"If this is true…" His arhtened around her "You are a jewel of rare price, my dear"
"I aly and snuggled into his side, sneaking one soft hand down to stroke the inside of his thigh No, he would not tire of her It didn’t amemnon’s war prize, even when they returned to Greece
"Kalchas!" Agamemnon lifted his voice over the sensuous beat of drums
"Here, my lord" The old prophet seemed to materialize out of the air itself
Just like a poisonous ust for the revolting old a to make an enemy of him
"Fetch Ajax to me"
"Ajax,Agamemnon’s command looked similarly confused, as they should Ajax was brilliant on the field of battle Off the field of battle he could hardly put together a co and stupid as an ox
"Yes, Ajax I had a dreareat victory tomorroish to tell hiift him with for his heroic actions"
"Yes, my lord" Kalchas bowed and scuttled froenerals who had overheard sods, and seeing their king acting on one of his was so of which they all approved
Of course Briseis knew Agaht before had been her open thighs He’d told her so that , he’d put his face between theain and whispered, "What are you up to, amemnon pulled her onto his lap so that she straddled his She leaned into hihts the Trojans, it will be his last battle, as well as the day we are finally victorious I have waited almost ten summers for the damned prophesy of his death to come true, and I ait no more"
"But I hear from my sources in the Myr the prophesy Perhaps that is true--you know even Poseidon’s amemnon bit her neck and whispered, "All Achilles need do is to kill Hector and his death will follow Zeus has proclaie that Polyxena has been keeping him from the battlefield, and thus away froance has led him to believe his little oracle can so to be sure Hector’s path to Achilles is clear and then let fate take over"
Briseis laughed huskily "My lord, you are brilliant!" Then sheher eyes and pretending she straddled the strong young body of a warrior
"The spell couldn’t be that si you--it isn’t a spell, it’s self-hypnotism, and it is that si It alone can make a person believe he’s sick, or better yet, believe he is perfectly hen he should be sick I’ve seen sos in the ten-plus years I’ve been in practice"
"And this self-hypnotism, which is not a spell but seems very much like a spell, can actually helpa thick strand of Kat’s hair, wrapping it around his finger, and then bringing it to his lips "It’s like a sable’s pelt I’ll never tire of touching it"
"I got lucky," Kat said, tilting her head so that he could touch her hair more easily "Polyxena had a seriously nice head of hair"
Achilles set that this body has not always been yours What color was your hair before?"