To Weave a Web of Magic by Claire Delacroix & Lynn Kurland & Patricia A. McKillip & Sharon Shinn

Author:Claire Delacroix & Lynn Kurland & Patricia A. McKillip & Sharon Shinn
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Short Stories, Fantasy Fiction
ISBN: 9780425196151
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Published: 2004-07-05T14:00:00+00:00

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"Hush," he said again. We were silent long enough to hear the voices fade away. He pushed open the landing door and nearly shoved me into the hallway. His hands, hooked in the collar of my borrowed cloak, pulled it back with him into the stairwell. "Quickly. To the ballroom. Dance with someone."

"But you—I want to—I mean, will you be around tomorrow?"

I could see his grinning face framed by the closing door. "I imagine we'll all be around till after the wedding," he said.

"But—" I said again, but I spoke to the closed, gilt-and-cream-colored door. I knew well enough that if I opened it again, Jesse would have disappeared. "But will I see you tomorrow?" I whispered. "Will I get my kiss then?"

No time to be standing here having one-sided conversations with doors. More voices were coming down the hall from the direction of the ballroom as people began to trickle away from the dance floor. I glided back down the marble halls, back in the direction of light and music and color. I slipped inside the doorway and made my way around the perimeter till I was deep inside the room. No one seemed to notice my arrival, just as no one had seemed to notice my departure.

Well, one person. "Eden!" Gideon's voice exclaimed in my ear, and I turned to see the Archangel's son smiling down at me. "Where've you been? I looked for you a couple of times."

"Oh I was dancing, then I was eating, then I went outside for a little bit when it got too hot in here," I said nonchalantly. "Have you been dancing all night? Have you had fun?"

"Dancing, yes. Fun, no," he said. "But I've made my mother happy, and that counts for something."

I laughed. "It counts for a lot. Are you done dancing for the night? Or do you have enough energy to do this last one with me?"

For an answer, he held out his arms, and I stepped into his very correct embrace. By now, the dance floor was only about half full, and most of the performers were tired; this final waltz was pretty languorous in pace. Gideon and I chatted happily throughout it, whispering comments about the other people on the floor and those we did and didn't like. I glanced across the room once to see my mother's eyes on me. She stood by the door, as if she had just stepped through it to look for me, and she was smiling in approval. I lifted my hand from Gideon's shoulder to give her a friendly wave, and she waved right back.

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herded off together into Abigail Lesh's quarters to spend the day with specialists imported to work on our hair and skin and nails. It was an activity I normally would have enjoyed, for I

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