"McAllister found himself warming to the man. Nonetheless, it would be a week's ride, if they were not delayed, through the various city-states along ...the northern shore of the Middle-Sea, until they reached Saint-Raphael, seventy leagues to the east. On a good road, with only minor detours around walled cities, McAllister and Sable might expect to cover the distance in eight hours if stealth and food were not concerns. With the Jade, riding alone, McAllister judged the travel should require. “You’re a good man,” she repeated. I could feel her closer now, feel the heat emanating from her body. “Did you think Heaven would leave such devotion unrewarded?” Finally, some light. With aching slowness her form became illuminated, each curve and swell alive with a brightness that seemed to come from within. She was beautiful, and without a stitch of clothing to mar that beauty. Russet hair fell in a tangled weave over heavy breasts tipped with pert cranberry nipples. Her lips were full and. I had an attendant to do my hair, and one to do my fingernails and even my toenails, and one to do my makeup.I was also happy to see Shadow Crisine, who had come with a rack of dresses. Flutter served spiced tea and cinnamon cakes, managing to avoid offering any input at all on the dresses, and Shadow and Pleasant selected an ice blue satin thing that was much lower cut across my chest than the dress I had bought last time, but it still managed to not be the plunging neckline I feared. There. ”“Right, well… I should go. Um… I found your glasses, they were underneath me in the bed, I left them there on the bedside locker.”“Oh, thanks, I was wondering where they went to.”Finishing her coffee, throwing the empty cup in the bin and retrieving all of her stuff, she keeps the dressing robe on as she heads out of the hotel room, before realising that there was one thing she still didn’t know.“Oh my God, I’m so sorry,” she says as she stands in the hallway with the room door still open. “I.