Anthony, Piers - Xanth 22 - Zombie Lover by Anthony Piers

Author:Anthony, Piers
Language: eng
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Chapter 9. SERIOUS SEDUCTION

"Wake, Breanna, but feign sleep for the nonce."

"What's a nonce?" she asked sleepily.

"For the time being."

"Being what?"

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A B B YY.c "There being three men approaching. It is too late to escape without being spied, so I think it best to

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remain still."

"Oh." She kept her eyes closed and her breathing even. She was under the dock, and possibly in danger.

"I don't think I could escape three men, even with the protection racket."

"Precisely. Unless they believe you are sleeping, and then you move very suddenly I should be able to judge when the moment is propitious."

"Okay, I'll fake it. But I hope it's a false alarm."

"So do I, Breanna "

They waited while the men approached. "Say, now, a sleeping beauty," one said.

Breanna tensed, but forced herself to seem relaxed and asleep. But as the dialogue of the three men proceeded. Justin suffered a revelation. "I know these men!" he exclaimed. "I have heard their voices before, when they visited my tree. They are Magician Bink, his son King Dor, and grandson Prince Dolph."

"Royalty!" she exclaimed silently.

"Indeed. They are all Magicians, and good folk. We need have no fear of them."

"What they're saying is interesting. Who is Chameleon at Perihelion?"

"Chameleon is Bink's wife. She vanes with the cycles of the moon, alternately extremely smart but physically ugly, and extremely lovely but very stupid. He is saying that you remind him of her of the latter stage."

"I'm not stupid!"

"No one implies that you are, Breanna. Just that you are beautiful."

She reconsidered. "I think I like this man."

"He is eighty one years old, and his wife is seventy six."

"Oh, ugh!"

"Still, I believe it is time for you to wake. We need to check for the island."

"Gotcha." Breanna stirred, sighed, stretched, and slowly flickered her eyes open. She hoped that she resembled a truly beauteous enchanted lovely maiden innocently awakening.

"She's waking!" one of the men exclaimed.

So far, so good. Breanna looked at the men as they came to look at her. One was a mature fifty five, but the other two looked to be twenty four and twenty one. That didn't compute. How could they be three generations?

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A B B YY.c "I recognize King Dor and Prince Dolph. But the third-why it's Bink, as he was when young! He must

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have been youthened."

"Euthanized?" she asked, alarmed.

"Youthened. Made young again. By about sixty years, it seems."

"Miss," the elder man said cautiously. "Do you know where the Isle of Women is?"

"He is King Dor."

Breanna sat up and worked her way out from under the dock. After all, it was less than enchanting to have mainly her feet visible. Her skirt slid up some, but a little of that was beneficial. "Why yes, King Dor," she said. "I am going there myself."

"Excellent. May we go with you?" Then the man did a doubletake. "You recognize me?"

She wasn't ready to tell them about Justin Tree. Just in case.

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