"Yeah, sometime," I said getting breathless from the exertion."Make it soon, please," she groaned.I rang up that girl from the Estate Agency again and... this time she was in. Her name was Jane and she agreed to meet me the following night. After a few drinks I took her to an expensive nightclub in town where we dined and danced. She agreed to come to my place for coffee but we didn't bother, just as soon as the front door closed behind us she slipped off her dress, which was all that she was. It was late one evening a couple of weeks later. Frances and Ben had been out earlier checking around to see who had arrived for the summer. I think they were looking especially for that brother-sister pair they'd horsed around with one afternoon just before a huge storm last year. Now they were back and had gone to bed, as far as we knew.Kate and I were on the veranda, just talking about this and that, enjoying the warm night air. Next we were kissing, and one thing sort of led to. Nothing changes fast in Orzammar. My nephew will have a family, though, and status; that’s all I could hope for.”I promised myself silently that if we lived through this, I’d make sure Faren got to at least go visit.It was clear Faren was tired, and weak from blood loss. When he started nodding off mid-sentence, I scolded him into trying to sleep – as well as he could while tied to a chair, at any rate.It was a testament to his fatigue how soon his snored echoed around the chamber; I didn’t. I was completely worn out, but it would have been a nice morning if we could have just stood together in the shower.As if we would be able to do just that, I reminded myself. If she had shown up, I knew I wouldn't have been able to keep my hands to myself, good intentions or not.The shower refreshed me. I wrapped a towel around my waist and walked back into the bedroom. Kayla was still in bed, and she had pulled the sheets back over her. Her eyes were closed, and she looked like she was.