“Ah, no more tears,” he said pulling me onto his lap.

“We will not speak of her if it makes you sad. You lose the food we give you when you are upset.”

Strong arms held me tightly to his chest as I trembled.

“I miss her,” I cried into his neck.

“I worry about her and want desperately to see her. Everyday, I have her on my mind. If I could just know she was all right…” I trailed off.

It was a pipe dream. There was no more way for me to know Hannah was all right than for my mother to know I was all right. The distance may as well be the same. I was not going to get closer to either one of them.

coupling,” Damien said

talk to Nu-reeh and ask

dried my tears and

could

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chin so I looked in his eyes. I saw the spark of challenge and had to laugh. Damien was so

I said using the formal title to irritate him, “you are a powerful man

at me and hugged my body close to his. That seemed to settle the argument for

Damien discussing strategy. There had been a fight with bandits on the road today and Christof

red mountains group,” Damien argued as I finished scrubbing him. “We don’t do it that

way to arrange themselves and it might be better.

had to stifle a laugh. It sounded to me like Christof was just curious. He

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