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Until now, it had been the Unseelie king’s wont to abduct an insignificant mortal, one without clan ould not be eance He went too far this tirandson of one of fair Scotia’s greatest kings--a reat honor, noble and true of heart

She would win this mortal back

The queen was silent for a time Then, "Ah, what five hundred years in that place will do to hi had naain well Aedan MacKinnon would still be er reotten, she’d traversed that forbidden land herself, danced upon a pinnacle of black ice, slept within the dark king’s velvet embrace…

"Perhaps an enchanted tapestry," shethe MacKinnon the one truedirectly, lest the clash of their e the land But she could and would do all in her power to ensure Aedan MacKinnon found love at the end of his ier offered hesitantly, "they shall have but one bridge of the "

The queen pondered a otten realm wherewith the fairy That place where mortals would be astonished to know battles on and lost, universes born, and true love preordained, from Cleopatra and Marc Antony to Abelard and Heloise The lovers couldbefore they ever rand foundation for success of her plan

"Wisely spoken," the queen agreed Rising frorace, she raised her ar

From her melody a tapestry oven, of fairy lore, of bits of blood and bone, of silken hair frorandson of the McAlpin, of ancient rites known only to the True Race As she sang, her court chanted:

Into the Drea lure them deep

where they shall love whilst they doth sleep

then in the waking both shall dwell

’til love’s fire doth melt his ice-borne hell

And when the tapestry was complete, the queen marveled

"Is this truly the likeness of Aedan MacKinnon?" she asked, eyeing the tapestry with unmistakable erotic interest