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Tasted of those fine patrician lips. She is truly of the aristocracy.
"Easy!" I snapped to my men, to my warrioresses gathered up behind me. Worried
how much control even Lorraine had over that terrible beast as it almost
dragged her up to our deck. Saw my love give me a smile that told much without
words. I did not fear to step towards her despite the awesome beast beside
her. I took her in my arms as Delilah stood silently watching. Kissed her
before everyone. The taste of her mouth on mine as I turned to my crew. To my
warrioresses. Lorraine was unveiled beside
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me. She had wished to let everyone see her. To see her features as she stood
there with a hand on
Delilah's collar. The great dire wolf sitting on the deck, its head nearly to
her shoulder!
(comment by Lorraine Duval)
My husband gets a little carried away at times when he writes of me. I am not
a "sterling character"
as you have al- ready seen in this story. I do have flaws. I have done things
that I am not proud of having done. The fact that he loves me as he does
despite my defects is proof indeed that "love is blind".
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2565 A.D.!
A TALE OF ADVENTURE IN THE SECOND DARK AGE OF MAN
By Jerome B. Bigge
Book Two
Chapter Fourteen
"That was `Jon Richards'?" Gayle asked me as I stepped back aboard the Squala,
the Janis now hoisting her sails, the North Wind setting her jib as she rolled
there in the waves ahead of the heavy galley. Doubtless Gayle had seen much
through a tele- scope. I thought of what could have happened had Jon not sent
the orders that he had to the North Wind. The flames, the burn- ing. The
horrors of 20th
Century military technology transported to a more simpler and more innocent
time. I had much to think about. Jon's comments about this mysterious "Lady"
he had met concerned me. Especially his description of how she favored her
right hand. There was only one I knew who had such an injury!!!
"Yes," I answered, my voice curt. I saw the hurt in Gayle's eyes. Felt ashamed
of myself. There was no reason to take my feelings out on innocent young
Gayle. Upon the girl who in my heart now had won her own place. "It is not a
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time for talk," I said to her, "But later on I will share with you my own
secrets."
"I don't think anyone but you could have pulled something like this off!" Lady
Tirana smiled, petting
Delilah as she stood at my side. Carl Talen nodded, his arm around his lovely
Scribe.
"We can see the lights of Trella!" Sanda announced as she stepped into the
captain's cabin where I
was talking to Gayle. I had not made that fast a voyage, but I had been
"delayed" a bit!
"Signal for a galley to tow us in," I smiled back. I had no wish to try to
sail the Squala into Trella's busy harbor in the darkness! It was one thing to
sail the Squala out in the open sea, another entirely to handle the ship in
the close quarters of a busy crowded harbor, especially at night with only the
harbor lights of the other ships at anchor to guide you around them!
"I am the Lady Lorraine of Trelandar," I spoke to the man who had come aboard
for inspection. "I
verify that there is no sickness or disease aboard and that I am not carrying
anything of a nature prohibited by Imperial Law." The man nodding, regarding
me there in the lamp light, studying my features beneath my veil.
"You're lucky to get through," he answered. "There's a re- port that the
Dularnians have two warships in this area." I nod- ded and gave him a smile. I
had warned everyone to keep their mouths shut
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about our meeting with the North Wind and the Janis!
"I did meet them, but my ship was fast enough to outrun them both," I smiled
back. That was true, since the Squala had the "edge" on the North Wind and the
Janis is slow like all galleys. It is no faster than Sarnian Lady, and even
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