s, and down.

    By time  s to ts of artled and alarmed. ruggled. Uselessly—ted.

    quot;t,quot; said Alienor in a ;o a nigeac; S, flus somet it was she held.

    quot;You are binding me against my ; Devin said, a little desperately. quot;t my idea of o come toget; ed  she silken bonds held firm.

    Alienors ans moment tirred, primal and dangerous and terrifyingly arousing. , improbably soon, a quickening in . roked lig meditatively along umescence.

    quot;It ; murmured le Borso. ed se teetered taut firmness of o straddle  s by ts chem.

    quot;It ; Alienor said again. quot;trust me. Let me teac oget will be very soon.”

    S ed and truggled but only for a moment for   as s above raining of h.

    And before t   candles of er burning doerribly, over and over again. And at t o her own.

    t some time later. ted drifting of smoke. ttern of ligiced it. to its embers; till lay before it, its magnificent retc on its paws.

    quot;You ter go,quot; Alienor said, stroking ly. quot;o carry. It is easy to lose your he dark.”

    quot;You observe t; tle surprised at sucy. quot;No fires?”

    quot;No fires,quot; s;aif  even  to guess at enant farmers or torm tle. Call do curse ake tes seriously up here.”

    quot;As seriously as you take yours?”

    S t and stretc. quot;I suppose so. tonigomorro I prefer not to kno.quot; ition so of t by ts.  curve of we flesill showing red.

    Sraig felt abrupt, a dismissal, and Devin gave are, not mo