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I al "You threatened to lock him up?"

"I never threaten; I merely told him what my duty as paladin required of me"

"Sounds like a threat to hts as paladin to take Tam into custody I can’t trust hi hihred was as much a surprise to him as it was to you I don’t think it was premeditated The last tihred was secure in its casket and wrapped in containment spells At that time, those containments actually worked There was no reaction then between the two of you and the Saghred"

No, but there’d been plenty of reaction between Tairl could remeainst a mainmast and kissed quite like that before Taet him No chance of that

Mychael hadn’t seen that farewell, and I wasn’t about to tell hireat anyhred down for a light nap It was snoozing just fine until it got a whiff of Taet Ta in circles Tam’s elevated it to an art for to pry it out of him will just make you dizzy" Tam’s answer to a question was very often another question Not one of hisintofrequency

"Mychael, has anyone actually tried to steal the Saghred?"

"No one"

Mychael’s stony expression told me that fact confused and concerned him even hred, but he expected someone to at least try Apparently there were no takers--at least not yet

"Maybe Piaras putting most of the Guardians to sleep actually was a trial run for a Khrynsani robbery attempt," I ventured

"Perhaps But Piaras didn’t knock out all of uards I have down on the containhred, and walk out" He paused "The only treasure anyone has tried to take is you," he said softly

Oh boy

I tried to sit up in bed and winced; ed ently eased me back Those sea blue eyes looked at er than was comfortable for either one of us

"Would you like me to help with the pain?" he asked

"Uh, I’m not sure that’d be the best idea"

"Why not?"

I put ht between ht here’s where it hurts the htly With a visible effort, he forced any aardness down The proper paladin was back "I am a healer, a medical professional You are in pain It is ht hand with a questioning glance

Now if it’d been any other et his hands on h I would think that having his hand where he proposed to put it would tempt even the most professional healer to nonprofessional conduct It wasn’t a problem for me I was just a seeker; my ethical values were safe