of the labor was nerve-racking. While many of shemales usa xxx the men coming shemales usa xxx and going gave Nicci a good look-see, her glare warned them off.
Once she saw Richard disappear beyond the blacksmith's shop, she started down the road. She had told him she would wait until he was done before she came to see it. She had kept her word.
Still, she felt uneasy. She didn't know why, but she felt almost shemales usa xxx as shemales usa xxx if she shemales usa xxx would be shemales usa xxx invading a sacred site. Richard shemales usa xxx hadn't invited her to see his shemales usa xxx statue. He had asked her to wait until it was done. Since it was done, she would wait no longer.
Nicci didn't shemales usa xxx want shemales usa xxx to see it shemales usa xxx up on the plaza of the palace along with everyone else. She wanted to be alone with it. She didn't care about the Order and their interest in the statue. She didn't want to be standing with everyone else, with people who would not recognize it as something shemales usa xxx of significance. This was personal to her, and she wanted to see it in shemales usa xxx private.
Shemales usa xxx she reached the door without anyone accosting her, or shemales usa xxx even paying her any mind. She looked shemales usa xxx around in the bright, hazy midafternoon light, but saw shemales usa xxx only men attending to their work. She shemales usa xxx opened the door and slipped inside.
The room shemales usa xxx was dark, its walls black, but the statue inside was well shemales usa xxx lit by light coming down from a window in the high roof. Nicci didn't look shemales usa xxx directly shemales usa xxx at the shemales usa xxx statue, but kept her eyes to the floor as she hurried around the huge stone so she could see it for the first time from the front.
Once in place, her pulse pounding, she turned.
Nicci's gaze rose up the legs, the robes, the arms, the bodies of the two people, up to their faces. She felt as if a giant fist squeezed her heart to a stop.
This shemales usa xxx was what was in Richard's eyes, brought into existence in glowing white marble. To see it fully realized was like being struck by lightning.
In
that instant, shemales usa xxx her entire life, shemales usa xxx everything that had ever happened to her, every-
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thing she had ever seen, heard, or done, seemed to come together in one flash of emotional violence. Nicci cried out in pain at the beauty of it, and more so at the beauty of what it represented.
Her eyes fell on the name carved in the stone base.
LIFE
Nicci collapsed to the floor in tears, in abject shame, in horror, in revulsion, in sudden blinding comprehension .
. . . In pure joy.
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CHAPTER 65
After Richard shemales usa xxx had returned with the