Again? I said silently."Please," she said out loud, and then with her thoughts she told me exactly what her devil wanted me to do.The devil on my shou...lder agreed with her devil, and my angel, like hers, remained silent.That was earlier. Now she slept peacefully, unhampered by devils or angels. I left the bed silently and carefully and dressed in the dark, fulfilling an earlier promise she'd forced me to make."Leave me while I'm sleeping, Clint. If you don't, if I wake up and you're still lying. "Lecia's right..." This is just the beginning!" Can we assume it's a failure though?" Well, even though it was intense, the flames didn't last very long." That doesn't mean it's a failure or success though. How vexing." This is why I was against performing this. For all we know, we could've died! Do we even have a small clue what this was supposed to do?" Our linguist says it may have to do with rain or water based on some words that hold similarity to Latin." So we might get rain...or we might. Even being Duke was good. Of course, my crew probably would have given that answer even if I had been outlawed instead of ennobled. Everyone in Widemouth owed their freedom, their health, and probably their lives to me, and men who had fought beside me for a half-dozen years weren’t about to take any disrespect from anyone here.And if the Trader’s night watchman was who it usually was, it was an old man who couldn’t get around well any more. He probably would not be able to get back out of the. His bloated balls swinging against my taint and sac like i was being beaten with a wet sock full of mouldy coins. It was then that I sensed something strong from my lover, and caught the look her serene blue eyes were giving me.Without a word between us, our silent exchange began to change the insane world we now found ourselves in. I remembered all the joy we had with each other, and slowly that feeling replaced the humiliation, outrage and pain of our situation. As if I was watching a movie.