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Dawn brought the telltale songs of larks into the openof Vinta'svoice coaxed Aldrec to rise, he discovered, to his combined amusement and dismay, that Mericlou had decided to use his chest as a pillow,into aas this was, he afforded hiers tenderly across her cheek He gazed lovingly upon his wife's sleeping form, as her lips reflexively curved into a s that she was not an early riser This ht stay that way until around noon, most likely -not that he minded But as s to do And being paralyzed in his bed for the duration of theunder her arentle levitation spell

Retnoht upon hiness beneath her As she floated above him, he slid out of bed, and di her to descend back onto the ently as she rose The entire time, she slept soundly

He stretched his faintly soreto leave for the washroo the runes on the door Their glowing, intertwining patterns were a re he needed to do

Quietly, he opened the top drawer of his dresser and reically-produced sheet of paper, he wrote the note to put beside it before placing it on the pillow next to Mericlou He s for the door behind him "We have a busy day ahead of us"

The bath was blessedly war, fro, in fact, that Aldrec found hi to shake off the pleasurable fancy that the water was Mericlou's e to his body fro the water with a sparse blanket of lavender purple Combined with the decorative ferns and vines set about the bathing pool, they made it look even more like an outdoor pond than before

He closed his eyes, and the warmth of the water lulled hiination transfor of the waves The washroom became a beach in the Lemsram coast town of Lithovaad, as he and Mericlou enjoyed each other's presence in a tropical paradise