This couldn't be real. I knew when I'dwake up that this would be an incredibly hard dream to come back from.I sat up slowly, letting the sheet fall ba...ck down over my body.My room was the same, exactly how I'd left it the night before. Even mywardrobe was still open, the side that I'd dedicated to my growingcollection of girl's clothes and makeup, wigs, padding and all sorts. Itwas all still there, unorganised, things lying around. Whenever I dressedup I'd make a mess, looking through all my. ’ He grinned mischievously up at her. ‘The Irish don’t have an accent—we’re just the only ones in the world who know how English is supposed to sound.’ She ruffled his hair playfully. He wrapped his arms around her left leg and leaned his cheek against it. He began placing slow, gentle, sweet kisses on the outside of her knee. ‘Winter,’ he started softly. ‘Hm?’ she responded, savouring the feel of his soft lips and warm beard against her leg. ‘I want to talk to you about something, lovely,’ he. Meanwhile, the hunters were on the lookout for leopards, bears and wolves that might chance their luck. Ivory’s pleasure was interrupted for only a short while, when Chief Cave Lion made an appearance under the pretext of reassuring them that the end of their winter migration was imminent. Just one day more. Or two days at the most if the weather worsened. But Glade and Ivory knew by his furtive manner that what he really wanted was to nestle under the furs with the two women, which of course. After the Major Domo signalled for all to rise from their obeisance he opened the audience with a statement."The Princess Elaheh is to be accorded all the rights and privileges of a male Prince of my blood. She is a full Kobekistani citizen and shall be treated as any other Kobekistani citizen would be treated. Any harm done to her is harm done to me. She will be addressed as Mistress."Some of the older members of the audience remembered that similar treatment had been accorded to Princess.