Seduced by Moonlight

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery & Detective, Fairies, Women private investigators, Fiction, Fantasy, supernatural, Women Sleuths, General
ISBN: 9780345472069
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2004-08-15T20:29:56.629000+00:00

He looked at Barinthus as he finished, then his grey eyes found me, and he gave me a lingering look. It wasn\'t sexual, or food, or anything that I would have expected from Usna. It was a considering look. A look that held far too many guesses that were far too close to the truth.

The moment passed and his eyes were simply full of good cheer. He clapped Abloec on the shoulder. \"Let us go forth and beard the queen in her den of iniquities.\"

Abloec got to his feet frowning. \"You would help bear such news, knowing what she may do?\"

\"She\'ll hate the assassination attempt, someone will bleed for that one, but the rest\" �Usna threw his arm across the other\'s shoulders�\"the Queen will love the other news.\" He started moving Abloec down the hallway, and the rest of us began to trail after. Usna called back over his shoulder at me, \"If I were you, Princess, I\'d be worried that she does not put you in a magical circle like an animal in the zoo, and just send one of us after another to see how many of us you can bring back to . . .\" He put his sword pommel over his lips as you\'d place a finger to say,Shhhh. \"Save that for the queen\'s ears, eh.\" And he glided down the hallway ahead of us, his nude body in its calico colors leading the way, with Abloec still pressed to his side. CHAPTER 27

The only doors in the entire sithen that were black were the doors leading to my aunt\'s chambers. They were a shining improbable black stone that stood taller than the tallest guard, and wider than that semi the first hallway could hold.

The doors were their usual ominous selves, but the two men who stood at attention before the doors were not usual. One, there were rarely guards on this side of the doors. The queen enjoyed an audience, especially if that audience could not participate, no matter how much they wanted to. Sometimes you\'d find guards outside if they were waiting to escort people away once the queen was finished speaking with them. But somehow I didn\'t think that was it. Call it a hunch, but I was betting the guards were there waiting for me. What was my first clue? They were nude except for enough leather belts and straps to hold swords and daggers, and boots that came to their knees.

\"I\'m sensing a theme,\" Rhys said.

So was I. Because not only were they more nude even than Hawthorne and Ivi had been, but they were also vegetative deities. Adair still bore the name of what he had been once, foradair means \"oak grove.\" His skin was the color of sunlight through leaves, that color more common among the Seelie than the Unseelie, the color we callsun-kissed. His ankle-length brown hair had been butchered short, shorter than Amatheon\'s by nearly half a foot. Someone had shorn him, so that there was almost nothing left to remind the eye what beauty once framed that golden body.

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