.. !!" they tried again, unsuccessfully."Prac tice!" I told them again enunciating each syllable for them. After a few more tries they were doing fair...ly well on that one word."Talking is very hard on the ... throat!" Almha told me after they had finished."Would you like some water to drink?" I asked before realizing that they didn't have anything to put water in. "Cup your hands like this," I told them and showed them. When they did, I filled their hands with water which really startled the. The next time I saw Amenthia I would have her pass on the message to Tyr when she had the chance. I wasn’t sure he would help me, given what had recently happened.I sat on my bed and enjoyed my food; the meat was rich and tasted delicious, cooked exactly as I liked it. The potatoes were flavored in a new, but delicious way and mixed with bacon. The veggies were a nice mix of asparagus, carrots and broccoli. It was an amazing meal that hit the spot just right and I had just put my plate down,. "Lissa laughed openly, then. Not a giggle or a chuckle but a full-bodied laugh of a young woman. "Definitely NOT," she finally said. "If I did what's in the dirty stories, I should be licking it up," she added, much more softly. Almost as if only speaking to herself."Only if you want to," Denise said. Lissa looked up at her mom, realizing she'd heard what she'd just said. She looked around at me, a strange expression on her face.I returned her gaze and nodded, sagely, and then, feeling. He waited for her as every night, hidden in the shadows. He knew she would come into his arms, eager for his touch. He felt himself harden at the thought of her, all rosy and soft under her clothes. They had been meeting in secrecy for some time, defying the surveillance of her Father and the guards patrolling the palazzo. She was, after all, the daughter of the Dux and he was just a traveller who had happened to see her at a banquet and had fallen for her.He had courted her for some time.