Daughter of the Empire by Feist. Raymond E

Author:Feist. Raymond E [Onbekend]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, General, Fantasy, Fiction, #noisbn
ISBN: 9780246132260
Publisher: Spectra
Published: 1987-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Nacoya raised her eyebrows. 'To the nursery?' she said, startled, but her mistress ignored the liberty.

'The matter wil not wait.' Without further fuss, Mara relieved the slave of the damp cloths and began to cleanse her infant's soiled bottom.

jican arrived, any puzzlement he felt wel concealed. He bowed deeply as his mistress tied a clean loincloth around her son. 'Have we some documents that would be appropriate for my Lord husband's review?'

Barely able to contain his distaste at the mention of the Lord of the Acoma, jican said, 'My Lady, there are always documents that are appropriate for the Lord of the house to review.' He bowed, shamed at how close to insult his words came in their implication that Buntokapi neglected his responsibilities. Mara sensed her hadonra's discomfort as she lifted Ayaki onto her shoulder. In a tone sweet as red-bee honey, she said, 'Then I think it would be fitting to send a scribe to my husband's town house at three hours after noon.'

Jican stifled open curiosity. 'If you think that is wise, mistress, then it shal be done.'

Mara dismissed him and saw that Nacoya, too, regarded her with a shrewd glint in her eyes. 'You are deaf, mother of my heart,' the Lady of the Acoma said softly. 'And business matters are never conducted in the nursery.'

The nurse bowed promptly, guessing something of her mistress's intentions; but the ful extent of those plans would have terrified the old woman beyond measure. As I am terrified, Mara thought, and silently wondered whether the Goddess of Wisdom would hear the prayers of a wife who knowingly provoked a husband already renowned for his bad temper.

Buntokapi raised his head from rumpled, sweat-damp pil ows. The screens were drawn closed, but even the decorations painted in scarlet, maroon, and ochre could not entirely block out the 224 . Daughter of the Empire

afternoon sun in the garden beyond. A golden glow suffused the chamber, lending warm highlights to tangled sheets and to the sleeping form of his mistress, Teani. The Lord of the Acoma regarded the rounded length of her thigh, his thick lips bent into a smile. This was a woman, he thought. Naked, she took his breath away, as Mara's slenderness never had. He had felt passion for his wife when he had first wed; but having tasted the delights of Teani's talents, he now realized that his feelings for Mara arose from desire to dominate the daughter of a great family - and to rectify his own limited experience with women prior to becoming a Lord. Once he had a son, he had tried to do a husband's duty, but Mara lay like a corpse, and what man could stay interested in a woman who offered no sport?

Mara's strange intel ectual passions, her love of poetry, and her fascination with the cho-ja Queen's hive grave Buntokapi a general headache. His mistress was another matter. In silent appreciation, he studied Teani's long legs. A fold in the sheets hid her

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