Something had been nagging at Corec’s mind ever since he’d met with Yelena a few days earlier. Wardens were supposed to be able to sense other mag...es. He’d felt something—that strange sense of familiarity—when he’d first encountered Razai and Sarette, and now Leena, but he’d never felt it with Yelena or her bondmates, or with Priest Telkin, or Vartus or Galina back in Snow Crown. And he’d never felt it randomly on the street, though he must have passed by other mages along the way.After he’d. I dragged my sleeping pallet over to the cave mouth then covered the opening with grass mats tied to a standing frame. I could still lift them to get in and out as needed to get water, use the outhouse and to gather more firewood. I lived inside a smoke house for a couple weeks. In the mornings I took a bath in the dew on the grasses because I was sticky from the smoke residue.I needed a bucket or two as well as more baskets. I wove them out of tightly twisted ropes of grasses. The savannah. "I can make you want me"."I have no doubt that you can Mr. Devlin. But that isn't much of a victory, is it?"That silenced him for a while. He was studying her and he didn't look amused anymore. "I have underestimated you, haven't I?", he said suddenly but Jen didn't reply. "However, part of you still wants the same thing that I do and the longer we deny it the worst it will get for both of us. Or am I wrong?"His eyes were challenging her to deny it, to refuse the attraction between them but of. He quickly glanced around looking at the dark brown walls he thought looked like something that would be in study. The reddish table was a long oval shapped and it too was brown in color. In that case though one could tell by the stains and fading that it was an older table. There were also eight chairs set around the table all newer back support chairs. Along the back wall was an enclave that had two shelves. One had a larger multi-person coffee maker on it, with a small hotel type coffee.