Twin Passions by Lora Leigh

Author:Lora Leigh [Leigh, Lora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Erotica, Romance, General, Fantasy
ISBN: 9781419943065
Publisher: Ellora's Cave
Published: 2012-01-15T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

The return to the castle was made mostly in the dark.

By the time Astra had grabbed a drying sheet and made her way to the bathing caverns, her need for the magick-infused waters was so great she was nearly in tears at the thought of sinking into its heated caress.

The twin moons had risen in the sky not long after she had made her way from the Wizards’ cavern. She had watched them rise, full and strong, their once-dimming rings of magick seeming not so hazy as they had in all the years of her life.

It was late enough though. There was every chance the other Sorceresses of the Brigade had already bathed and retired to their suites.

She could not face the small talk that normally filled the evening visits to the bathing caverns. Discussions of the Wizard Twins, who next would become Joined, though all Joining ceremonies of testings of Alignment of Powers had been banned until the Queen Amoria or Princess Serena, preferably both, were returned to their thrones.

Princess Marina had declared the ban in retaliation for the threatened enforced Alignment of Powers by the Veressi with the Ruler in Waiting, Princess Serena, at a time when her mother had been out of contact during her meetings with the Sentinel Priestesses of Covenan.

How things were changing. With the arrival of the Wizard Twins, so much had changed, and Astra was being forced to change with it.

She entered the bathing cavern with trepidation, the uncertainty of facing the other Sorceresses tightening her stomach as the stream and glittering emerald spores of power filled the room.

Steam and the heated waters carried the spores as few other things did, other than the blood of a magickal being.

Bleed, and the bright pinpoints of emerald energy could be seen glistening among the red. The spores infused all that was Sentmar, though it was rumored they had retreated from the human lands long before Wizard Twins had taken their first Sorceress between them.

It was a rumor Astra did not doubt, for it was well known magickal beings could not exist within those lands.

Thankfully, the bathing caverns were empty.

The heated waters bubbled gently about the large pools. The main cavern held six of the large pools. The heated water bubbled from beneath the stone caverns, filling the pools with its magick solace.

With a wave of her hand the warriors’ leathers disappeared from her body, only to reappear, neatly folded on a dry stone shelf next to her.

Naked, her body still much too sensitized from the touch of the Wizards’ magick earlier in that day, Astra had greatly looked forward to the warmth and solace of the waters. Exhaustion and a saddened realization that she could not stop whatever fate the One had decreed for her, and it seemed that fate was going to be impossible to either avoid or delay for the present, filled her.

Pacing slowly, head down, Astra took the roughly hewn stone steps that led to the magickal caress of the waters. It first lapped her ankles, then her knees.

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