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The Rigellen attendant blinked

“Oh, yes! Forgive me—please follow me”

She turned to go and E Monstrue and acrimonious scene behind

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Rarev kept an eye on Elass corridor He was certain he’d felt a treh she was trying to pretend she was perfectly fine, he had an idea that the attack by the vicious sea monster that fool Om’bobla had made, had shaken her more than she wanted to admit

There was also the matter of her wounds The suckers on the sea creature’s tentacles had been tipped with sharp points Rarev was anxious lest it had injected some kind of toxin into her sht red suction marks all over her wrist and breast He wanted desperately to heal her…but he wondered if she would let him

After ad the Trial of Truth, she had beco about her true feelings embarrassed and disturbed her Rarev wished it wasn’t so—he longed to discuss the mutual attraction between the fro aroma of a v’eelah blossom in full bloom

Her Second Mating Period was almost upon her—he was sure of it And while his vow kept hied to do, he could still help her with the pain and the need she

But until Es to hi he could do

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“This is to be your sleeping cha theon constructed of eight large crystal panels that rose to a single point in the high ceiling above

In the center of the rooe, round bed with lots of cylindrical pillows all draped in white, but the focus of the chamber wasn’t the bed but the panels it was made of

The panels looked out onto a landscape of breathtaking beauty—a desert scene with a fiery sunset that painted the sand dunes that surrounded them in many shades of crimson and vermillion and deep, dusky purple

“Oh—are we in the desert, then?” Eht ere in the middle of a city”