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That was why she hadn't reactedAlienor had enough of a sense of humor to find their by-play amusing, and even to feel a little regretful when Catriana had gone
Two days afterwards Elena had comeBaerd had said it would be a womanHe had asked Alienor to take care of herShe had raised her eyebrows at that as well
On the northern ramparts she glanced over in the twilightElena had come up without a cloak; her hands were cupping her elbows tightly against her bodyFeeling unreasonably irritated, Alienor abruptly removed her shawl and draped it over the other's shoulders
"You should know better by now," she said sharply"It gets cold up here when the sun goes down
"I'm sorry," Elena said again, quickly motioning to remove the shawl"But you'll be chilled nowI'll go down and get something for myself
"Stay where you are!" Alienor snappedElena froze, apprehension in her eyesAlienor looked out past her, past the darkening fields and the emerging flickers of light where night candles and fires were being lit in houses and farms belowShe dolce and gabbana handbags replica looked beyond all these under the first stars of the evening, her eyes straining north, her imagination winging far beyond her sight to where the others would all be gathering now, or soon
"Stay here," she said, more gently
Elena's blue eyes widened in the darkness as she looked overHer expression was grave, thoughtfulUnexpectedly, she smiledAnd then, even more astonishingly, she moved nearer and drew her arm through Alienor's, pulling her closeAlienor stiffened for a second, then allowed herself to relax against the other womanShe had asked for companionshipFor the first time in more years than she could remember, she had asked for thisA completely different kind of intimacyIt felt, of late, as if something rigid and hard was falling away inside herShe had waited for this summer, for what it might mean, for so many years
What had the young one said, Devin? About being allowed more than the transience of desire, if only one believed it was deservedNo one had ever said such a thing to her in all the years since Cornaro of pasha de cartier 32 mm steel Borso had died fighting BarbadiorIn which dark time his young widow, his bride, alone in a highland castle with her grief and rage, had been set upon the road towards what she had become
He had gone with Alessan, DevinBy now, they would probably be in the north as wellAlienor looked out, letting her thoughts stream like birds arrowing away through darkness, across the miles between, to where all of their fates would be decided when Midsummer came
Dark hair and light blown back and mingled by the wind, the two women stood together in that high place for a long time, sharing warmth, sharing the night and the waiting time
It had long been said, sometimes in mockery, sometimes with a bemusement that bordered on awe, that as the days heated up in summer, so did the night-time passions of SenzioThe hedonistic self-indulgence of that northern province, blessed with fertile soil and gentle weather, was a byword in the Palm and even over the seasYou could get whatever you wanted in Senzio, it was said, provided you were willing to pay chanel bags collection for itAnd fight someone to keep it, the initiated often added
Towards the end of spring that year it might have been thought that burgeoning tensions and the palpable threat of war would have dampened the nocturnal ardor of the Senzians, and their endless flow of visitors, for wine, for lovemaking in diverse combinations, and for brawling in the taverns and streets
Someone might indeed have thought such a thing, but not anyone who knew SenzioIn fact, it actually seemed as if the looming portents of disaster, the Barbadians massed ominously on the Ferraut border, the ever-increasing numbers of ships of the Ygrathen flotilla anchored at Farsaro Island off the northwestern tip of the province, were simply spurs to the wildness of night in Senzio townThere were no curfews here; there hadn't been for hundreds of yearsAnd though emissaries of both invading powers were prominently housed in opposite wings of what was now called the Governor's Castle, Senzians still boasted that they were the only free province in the Palm
A boast gucci men watches that began to ring more hollow with each passing day and sybaritic night as the entire peninsula braced itself for a conflagration
In the face of which onrushing intrusion of reality Senzio town merely intensified the already manic pace of its dark hoursLegendary watering-holes like The Red Glove or Thetaph were packed with sweating, shouting patrons every night, to whom they dispensed their harsh, overpriced liquors and a seemingly endless stream of available flesh, male or female, in the warrens of airless rooms upstairs
Those innkeepers who had elected, for whatever reasons, not to trade in purchased love had to offer substantially different inducements to their patronsFor the eponymous owner of Solinghi's, a tavern not far from the castle, good food, decent vintages and ales, and clean rooms in which to sleep were assurances of a respectable if not an extravagant living, derived primarily from merchants and traders disinclined to traffic in the carnality of night, or at least to sleep and eat amid that overripe fake rolex swiss corruption
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