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"Yes" Petting her, he bent his head to kiss a line down her neck "Dayn and his uard"

She shivered, stopped buttoning and began unbuttoning "And your sister?" His sister, who had beco that had caused her older brothers intense astonishment Micah, of course, had simply offered to let her borrow his weapons

He sucked over her pulse "She travels with Osborn and the boys to his homeland, so that her mate can teach his brothers what it is to be an Ursan warrior"

"Yes" She wove her fingers into his hair, holding him to her "The berserkers are needed still"

"Han to walk her backward, toward the bed "They will not be strangers to Elden, as we are not"

Allowing hi off his shirt and prowl up to cover her But instead of kissing her once there, he braced himself above her, his expression solemn "I am the Guardian of the Abyss, Liliana I will never abandon my duty"

"Of course" She caressed his chest "You can keep your proularly" Short, intense bursts of working with the earth, they had discovered, had the same impact as if he stayed continuously in Elden

"Will youthere was the first time in my life that I was happy," she whispered "The place where I found you You’re ratitude, Jissa had not blamed her for her father’s evil, and remained her very best friend

"You - Bard, too - can die in truth now, if you choose," she’d told the brownie, though it caused her terrible pain to think of a world without Jissa "Leave the Black Castle for a day and a night and you ake in the Always"

Jissa had shaken her head "The Bitterness would cry, cry And without et into eon you will live in" A laughing look "AndI would like to play ether we play"

"Is it only chess you two play?" Liliana had jested, overjoyed at Jissa’s choice

Except the tips of Jissa’s ears had turned pink

"Jissa"

Lips curving at the reen "The Black Castle is home"