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Xcor linked his hands and placed the in low tones; he hiht off their feet in theseoxblood armchairs

"This certainly seee in the set of documents that had been proffered "Very persuasive, indeed"

Xcor looked across at their host The glymera solicitor was built like a pamphlet, so thin that one wondered when he lay out flat whether he presented any verticality a&039;tall He also spoke with an exhausting thoroughness, his verbal paragraphs of s

"Tell me, how comprehensive is this brief?" Throe asked

Xcor&039;s eyes went to the bookshelves They were craentlemale had read each and every one Mayhap twice

The solicitor launched another well thought-out, well-articulated cruise through the English language "I would not have turned it over to you both without ensuring that all efforts were made to"

In other words, yes, Xcor filled in in his head

"What I do not see here" - Throe turned es - "is any notation of counter-opinion"

"That is because I was unable to find any The term &039;full-blooded&039; has been used in only two contexts - that of lineage, as in a full-blooded offspring of a given sire or a dam, and that of racial identity Over tiene pool, some contamination from humans - and yet individuals with distant Homo sapiens blood ties have as yet been construed by law as being full-blooded provided they go through their transitions Now, of course, that is not the case of the direct offspring of a human and a vampire That is a true half-breed And those individuals, even if they survive the change, have historically been held to a different standard by the laith lesser rights and privileges than other civilians The concern is thus - if the king&039;s shellan is a half-breed, there is a chance that any h the transition"

Throe frowned as if considering the implications "But within twenty-five years, we shall know one way or the other - and the royal couple could always atte"

Xcor interjected dryly, "You assume ill still be on the planet in two and a half decades At this rate, we are nearing extinction as it is"

"Precisely" The solicitor inclined his head in Xcor&039;s direction "Froh to prevent the transition fro - there have been docuive even eneration a fear that an offspring with that close a nexus to the huo out and seek one unaffiliated with our kind In which case, we could have a human queen, and that is" - the male shook his head with distaste - "absolutely untenable"

"So there are two issues," Xcor said as he sat back, the chair creaking under his weight "The legal precedent and the social iain pulled a head bob "And I believe that the social fears could be properly leveraged to fill in the gray areas around the relevant portion of the law concerning the king&039;s offspring"

"I concur," Throe murmured as he closed the papers "The question is how to proceed"

As Xcor opened hisoff his thought process, his body beco fork struck by some unseen hand

"Would you care to review the documentation?" the solicitor asked hirimly Indeed, one had to wonder what this learned male would think if he knew the decision maker in all this was an illiterate

"I a mayhap a stretch would cure whate&039;er ailed him "And I believe this information should be shared with members of the Council"

"I have sufficient contacts to call the princeps together"

Xcor went over to aand looked out, letting his instincts roam Was it the Brotherhood?

"Do that," he said with distraction as that huency he found inore

His Chosen

His Chosen had breached the coo," he said in a rush as he headed for the door "Throe, you wrap up here"

There was a certain co up froht Breaking out through the front entrance, he regarded the farnal

Between one heartbeat and the next, he was gone, his body and will drawn to his fe thief to redemption

At the Iron Mask don, Qhuinn went over to the bar and parked it on one of the leather-topped stools All around, theinto the hot air,him feel claustrophobic

Or maybe that was just his headspace

"Haven&039;t seen you in a while" The bartender, a nice-looking female with a rack and a half, slid a napkin in front of hiot it"

As he waited for his Herradura Seleccion Suprema to arrive, he could feel the eyes of the hu on hiay

You fuck odda his head, he really could have used a break: That happy little exchange had been banging around his head, just underneath the surface of his consciousness, ever since shit had gone doeek ago On the whole, he&039;d done an outstanding job of subli streak appeared to be over As his tequila arrived and he downed one shot glass, and then the other, he knew that there were no other distractions he could bring into play, nothe introspection off

Oddly - or ht of his brother He still hadn&039;t shared anything with Luchas about the young It all felt too tenuous: Even though the pregnancy was hanging in and continuing to look good, it just seeuy didn&039;t need at this point

And heabout his sex life or Blay For one thing, his brother was still a virgin - or at least, that had been Qhuinn&039;s understanding: The glymera were far , and certainly if Luchas had banged a fe as he didn&039;t hook up with her long-ters after his transition had been witnessed, so there had been no opportunity there, and the guy&039;s nights had been heavily scheduled with learning and studying and chaperoned social events No chance there

So into all the shit Qhuinn had done didn&039;t seem appropriate It also, in Blay&039;s words, wasn&039;t that interesting

Qhuinn scrubbed his face "Two ht on that, he thought, damn it, he&039;d assumed the sex he&039;d had with Blay had been really interesting And Blay hadn&039;t see

Whatever Back to Luchas In all those bedside chats he&039;d been having with his brother, females hadn&039;t come up - and males certainly weren&039;t on the menu Back before the raids, Luchas had been hetero like their father - which was to say strictly the female you were mated to in the missionary position on your birthday and maybe once a year after a festival