I had another small leather bag around my neck, containing nuggets of turquoise; I have often found these an effective currency. The girls then dresse...d me in clean but much mended homespun clothes and slipped a pair of rush sandals on my feet. Maatibre was particularly proud of these as she had crafted them herself. Merenefer then addressed me gently,“Highness, you are extremely beautiful, even unadorned as you now are. I would advise you to be humble and discreet so as not to draw attention to. Instead of a skinny, solitary, boringly successfulcomputer analyst my reflection was of the slender almost attractivesister he never had.Scarily there was something very appealing about the idea of being her.God know for how long I gazed at myself before I started washing up,but it was long enough for my back to stiffen. I tried to work with itbut in the end I capitulated and took another couple of the pills. Itwas rather scary to take them now I was fully aware for the first timeof what they. Her eyes were wild and she was clearly only just containing the fury that had shown itself only moments before. He could clearly see that trying to contain her at this moment would be just as effective as trying to harness an earthquake. Silently he went to her side and assisted her in packing cheese, bread, dried fruit and vegetables, and the rest of the supplies she had brought out of the pantry. ‘Milk?’ he asked, breaking the silence. ‘It would either freeze or spoil. Here is a skin of. I blinked and looked at her.“I’m turning eighteen. I want two weeks as your wife, starting the night of my party” she said. “I want everything that Jen got when she was eighteen.”I sighed. “Those were special circumstances,” I said quietly. “Your mum’s much better now. She might have an opinion about that. We’re not going to repeat what we did to your mother back then.”Bonnie grinned. “I’ve already spoken to Mum.” She tugged on the end of a thin necklace around her neck and the loop emerged.