‘You understand now.’ He said loudly, blinking, breaking the contact between them. He leaned back in his chair, smiling at her as Joyce blinked, s...hook her head to clear it. ‘I do.’ She agreed, cold desire brewing, a small fear, realization blossoming alongside it. ‘Did you put anything else in my head to go along with… the other?’ She asked, feeling a small rush of blood, pulse quickening as she awaited his answer, knowing it already. ‘Maybe, but answer a question for me first. And be honest.’. David halted the column and dismounted going into the guard hut to read it. It was from Paul, written in a hasty hand. Basically he and his son were not taking sides but Askari’s had raided his farm, forcibly enlisting his young workers into their ranks and stealing chickens and three of his Jersey cows. He had been powerless to stop it. They would have taken more but a German officer had arrived to stop them. The officer had apologised, but said they needed food for the coming invasion and had. "I was getting a sneaky suspicion that his accident was not an accident."I'm good at Fire Magic, Master Ibaniz said so. He said that it was going to be my specialty. Really, I haven't blown anything up in a season."He hasn't blown anything up in a season? I need to watch that."It was probably the stress from losing your home, just be more careful in the future."Stress my ass, I would bet my dinner that Kassandra had something to do with our meeting. Didn't you Lady? I received a warm embrace in. His left hand moved so gracefully up and down the neck of his guitar, all the while the muscles in his arms and shoulders danced under his skin. His long hair fell over his face as he bent his head forwarded. He would throw is head back when he hit the high notes, the muscles in his neck becoming taut, His eyes closed tight as the sound traveled through his body. Oh! how magnificent he was. I sat there mesmerized, engulfed in the same world that surrounded him, captured by his beauty, no.