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But still, after all his atte her, Mericlou was unable to control herself Like a lost child who had just been returned to herinto his now-drenched tunic, until her words beca Still, Aldrec showed infinite patience as he held her tre his most precious possession frorief, Mericlou heard hiently blew upon her, after which all grief and anguish left her Acco a lead weight She felt an overpowering drowsiness take her: soive into

It actually felt good, she thought, to fall into such a peaceful slumber

She awoke in unfas

The mattress and sheets of the bed where she discovered herself were silk, soft and light as a whisper

She opened her eyes, and sat up slowly, realizing that her jacket was gone She gasped, thinking that all her clothing had been removed, but the shock was short lived when the covers fell off of her Save her shoes, the rest of her clothing was still there To her side, she noticed that her jacket and shoes were placed neatly upon a small wooden chair beside the bed

As she slid out of bed and slipped into her shoes and jacket, she received her first view of the room The style reminded her of the posh décor of the few elven hoed to see, but the architecture waswaslines in the shapes of leaves and vines This pattern existed in everything from floorboards to furniture: from the dresser across from the embroidered silk canopied bed, to the fraht-hand corner And inset into those grooves of the leaf and vine prints were veins of pure gold

To her increased delight, plants of every sort lined the room, from potted vines that crawled up the wooden walls, to ferns and floral bouquets that seeht froreenhouse-like scent

Was this Aldrec's house? She recalled only the last few seconds before she succumbed to the sudden drowsiness in her love's arht breeze blew into the roo its fineshower of what appeared to be shining floral petals bleith the wind, vanishing into tiny points of light the moment they hit the floor