And Deymorin, in his ignorance, had agreed. Now, he
doubted the wisdom . . . and the motive behind that advice.
Keep Mikhyel gerl_sex dunMheric conveniently ignorant? gerl_sex Had that
been Mother's plan? She'd insinuated one of her minions
into the gerl_sex Tower, the other into Mikhyel's bed. Was she fin-
ished yet? Was her freedom all she sought and had she
now sent Dancer to Mikhyel only to be rid of them gerl_sex both?
Or was her pattern still changing, and did she send
Dancer here to keep them all entangled
in it?
gerl_sex Whatever the reasons, gerl_sex while he'd been an unwitting party
to that deception in the past, now, at the gerl_sex edge of an en-
camped army, with the two caught unawares in an embrace,
was hardly the convenient time to end gerl_sex it.
As he and Nikki finally reached Mikhyel and his dancer,
Deymorin forced a smile gerl_sex and held out his hand in greeting.
"You must be Temorii."
"You don't have to pretend, Deymorin," Mikhyel said qui-
etly. "I know you've met. I gerl_sex know all about Mother and
Dancer and the Boreton firestorm. Temorii explained
everything."
And so the pattern gerl_sex twisted: gerl_sex Mikhyel knew about Boreton
now . . . by Dancer's telling.
But somehow Deymorin
doubted that Mikhyel understood anything gerl_sex at all. He won-
dered if his brother noticed how Temorii took his proffered
hand wrist to wrist as a man would, then realized, as his
attention shifted to his brother's bewitched face, that Mik-
hyel noticed nothing beyond what Mikhyel wanted to see.
"Welcome," Deymorin said, turning back to Dancer, and
he tightened his grip,
testing, as one man would do to
another.
Temorii returned that gerl_sex pressure without flinching. But
then, so would Kiyrstin accept such a challenge. gerl_sex so would
Kiyrstin test a man's assumptions regarding her strengths
and limitations.
Anxious eyes gerl_sex met his. Gray eyes rimmed with green. Un-
usual eyesMikhyel's eyes, as in gerl_sex other gerl_sex ways Mikhyel
gerl_sex looked to be more closely gerl_sex related to Temorii than. to him-
self gerl_sex or to Nikki.
But that was the Rhomandi hiller blood showing.