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I heard Kitto&039;s voice in the hallway long before we got to the bedroo he said, but the tone was pleading, and the voice that answered hi&039;s queen, Creeda Over the last month I&039;d learned to truly dislike her

Kitto stood in front of the ht He was the only man I&039;d ever taken to my bed who made me feel tall The bare back he showed us was perfectly masculine, with a swell of shoulders, chest, a narroaist, just done sh, but from the back, without his shirt, you could see the scales They were bright and iridescent, a glittering rainbow of color that ran down the middle of his back on either side of his spine I knew that they spread out onto either side of his very upper buttocks The rest of him was a white perfection of skin like oblin in the last great goblin war

I noticed that his curly black hair had grown long enough to trail over his neck where the scales began He&039;d need a haircut soon if he were toto hide his defor, as we entered, "Please, Goblin Queen, do not make me do this"

She sat in the mirror, not a reflection, but as clear as if she sat just in front of us She wasn&039;tand black, but where his hair was silken, hers looked as dry and harsh as it truly was She had more eyes scattered about her face than I could count That along with a nest of arreat spider A sh to s and two breasts If those had been oblin beauty

Seeing the feoblinthan a sex thing, like most rapes

The queen, Creeda, leaned toward her side of theour vision with her dozens of eyes and that oddly off-center mouth There was a nose in there so else that you had to concentrate to notice it "You will do what ye&039;re told," she said, and her voice had taken on that whining groe&039;d all begun to dread

Kitto&039;s san to slide the sure my voice was clear and cheerful, and that my face didn&039;t sho much I disliked Creeda

Kitto pulled his shorts back into place and turned to ratitude on his face so plain that I hurried to ain I drew hiainst the side of ainst his soft hair I pressed his face gently into the curve of my neck and shoulder so he wouldn&039;t turn and look at Creeda If she once understood how truly afraid of her he was, she&039;d make the Summerlands into a wasteland to have him at her mercy

"You have interrupted," she whined

I sht and shiny I&039;d been relearning a lifetime of polite lies that had kept me alive as a child in the faerie courts You had to be able to lie with your face, your eyes, your entire body language, to h the politics of the courts I wasn&039;t always perfect at it, but the goblins were less noticing of such things The true test was always

"Greetings, Goblin Queen I a"

She snarled at s, as if she had more of them than she needed, like she had eyes I wondered if she had trouble eating without molars I knew beyond doubt that her bite was poisonous Of course, so was Kitto&039;s, but his one pair of fangs were retractable Creeda&039;s were not

Her face was a s, Meredith, Princess of the Sidhe, I have enjoyed s to do, Kitto and I will be busy for a little while longer" She shifted ry look But there were too many eyes, and they were too randomly placed for her to turn all of them his way Some moved independently to watch as Rhys and Doyle entered the room behind me

I smiled harder "Whatever do you mean?"

"If he is truly sidhe, as you clai"

A deep voice spoke off ca hinges on Kitto being sidhe There are creatures of faerie who do not gloithmoved into view He wasn&039;t as tall as most sidhe, but he was broader His shoulders were nearly as wide as Doyle was tall So the bulkiest of the fey After looking at the queen, Kurag&039;s three eyes seemed underdone His skin was the old yellow of bad wounds; of paper when it&039;s rotten enough to break in your hands He was covered in lu the goblins

One large luoblins called it, because it wandered away fro&039;s other eyes were a yellow that bordered on orange, but the eye at his shoulder was lavender, with a spill of black lashes to frame it There was a mouth on his chest, to one side, that ht, al teeth The small pair of arms on the side of his body near the eye and mouth waved at , Goblin King Greetings also to Kurag&039;s twin, Goblin King&039;s Flesh" The stray bits were part of a parasitic twin trapped in the goblin&039;s body The mouth could breathe, but not speak The eyes and handsWhen I was a child, I&039;d played cards with the hands whiledid business I was sixteen before I realized that it was a whole separate person trapped inside the otherhad shown ht the idea of two penises would i

I&039;d never truly been co being trapped in the body of another, unable to speak or choose his oay, or even his own sexual partners, had filledthe fey had ever quite exceeded

Froht I&039;d realized that the extra bits were a different person, I&039;d greeted thee, I was the only person who did so

"Greetings, Merry, Princess of the Sidhe" He looked at his queen, and she scareat wooden chair Shewas not above hitting her if she was slow to do his bidding In fact, he wasn&039;t slow to hurt anyone who displeased hioblins feared him, and they feared little

He settled himself into the chair It creaked under his thick bulk I don&039;twas fat; he was not He was just solid "We have talked and maneuvered this last moon span, but it was Creeda who said it If Kitto is not truly sidhe, then we talk for nothing"

"We have told you he is sidhe The sidhe ht"

"Let us say ish to see it with our own eyes" He wore that look that said he was a lot smarter than he appeared, and a lot less ruled by his desires There was a shrewd mind in that powerful body Most of the tiely serious, business-like I wondered what had happened to take the teasing out of Kurag

I almost asked, then kneould have been a mistake One fey does not admit to another that he is so easy to read It simply isn&039;t done, especially if one of the know that you see too deeply into hi?"

His gaze switched from me to Rhys, who had ht" This was usually Rhys&039;s cue to say, I&039;ht Today he just s frowned I don&039;t think he liked his insult being ignored He held out a great yellow hand, and his queen caht as air, and sat her on his lap "Creeda longs for a taste of sidhe flesh She didn&039;t get to fuck the white knight when he was here"

I felt rather than saw Rhys stiffen besideto be able to pull this off I&039;d asked too much of him Damn it

But I&039;d underestilanced behind to see that he sat leaning forward,his chest, white surrounding white like a piece of smooth ivory wrapped up in a cloud He propped his heels on the underpart of the bed so the robe parted in thethe pros, his thighs, all of him

A sh, thin noise in her throat I think it was supposed to be provocative It came out as an animal sound, but not a sound of any ani definitely insect-like about the noise

"You gonna flash us?" Kurag asked

Rhys just s&039;s eyes narrowed I watched the first flush of anger start across his face In thatcould backfire, badly

Doyle stepped into the heavy silence He pushed away fro the show He cah there was room to stand on my other side He was far less dressed, da nor his queen teased Doyle He was still the Queen&039;s Darkness or, sioblins can say what they like, but they were afraid of the Dark, just like everyone else

"The ti, and we need to knoe are visiting your sithen Is Princess Meredith to grace the goblins&039; court, or not?" He leaned his long, dark body against the dark wood of the bedpost He usually stood at attention, but I think he, like Rhys, was playing with the goblins His arlittered against his ar suit was so close to the color of his black skin that he looked nude I knew just how one, but the goblins didn&039;t

Creeda was ain She reached out with three of her hands, as if she&039;d try to touch the Darkness

Kurag pulled her hands back, hugging her to hiht have been a nervous gesture, or she ht of the oblin culture if you needed sex, you just took it, wherever you happened to be or whatever you happened to be doing It s with them, odd

"Prove that Kitto is sidhe Prove it beyond doubt"

"If we prove it," I said, "you agree to our proposal?"

He shook his great head "No, but if he is not sidhe, then our talks are finished"

I let some of my impatience with theain nothing from it? I don&039;t think so"

The queen&039;s hands had found Kurag&039;s groin through his pants Kurag ignored it, as if nothing were happening "I think all our talks have been for nothing I still don&039;t think the princess has the balls to do what you&039;re pressing her to do, Darkness"

"I a Princess Meredith decided this path on her own"

Kurag shook his head "I know you would not lie outright, but I also know that a woman besotted with a man will do much from a hint It doesn&039;t have to be an order A word here, a word there" His eyes lost focus for a second, and he pushed the queen&039;s hands away froroin He squeezed her thin are hands like a bouquet of flower stems Only when pain crossed her face did she release hier, as if he o

She sat in his lap, rubbing her arms with some of her other hands She looked sulky, like a child told, No I&039;d have been angry Creeda saved her anger for other things

Doyle finally answered, "I have done nothing to persuade the princess, except remind her she will someday be queen"

"It is not certain she will be queen Cel could still be king"

Doyle pushed away froht and perfect, as he usually did "Have you ever known me to stand at the side of the loser of such a contest?"

Kurag took in a great breath of air, then let it out slowly "No" He didn&039;t look happy about it

"Then enough stalling We have offered you a fair bargain"

Kurag&039;s gaze flicked to me "Is the Darkness your voice, Merry?"

"No, but when I agree with everything he&039;s saying, I don&039;t see a proble hi"

I sighed "No, that is not what Iyour warriors into their full power Think of it, Kurag: Goblin warriors with sidhe ic in their veins"

"There are those who fear goblins with such ic," he said

"I am not one of them"

He frowned, then stared at o that most people can&039;t abide silence They feel compelled to fill it I waited, and finally he spoke "Why are you not afraid? All that has kept the goblins froic of the sidhe Give us that to th in battle, and none will stand before us"

"And if the goblins go to war on American soil, you will be cast out, not just from faerie, but from the last country that will tolerate you" I shook o arred one upon the other, then perhaps I would fear, but not now You like it here, Kurag You like it far too uarantee victory"

"There are those aic"

I nodded "I know, but that is not your probleing over half a dozen goblins to sidhe would tip the balance of power Half-sidhe didn&039;t usually survive to childhood arown and in our poe are hard to kill, but as children we are fragile things Goblins co hands down the"You risk much, Merry"

"HowI offer you a chance at what the goblins have been denied for ive you that Cel cannot Only me, and those who stand with oblin you make sidhe is tooape, and knew that the red satin framed my breasts as if they hite jewels I&039;d never have tried this on another sidhe I was far too huoblins, I could be beautiful "A day extra is insulting, Kurag, and well you know it"

His gaze was solidly on ue "A week then"

Creeda stroked his face, half of her eyes onFor whatever reason, I e once upon a tioblin bloodlinewould fuck me if I&039;d let hi would probably have fucked anything if it held still long enough

I sat up straighter and began to fuss with the robe as if I were hot "Why not a year for each of the ones I bring over? Yes" - I looked up fro the sash of my robe - "yes, I like that A year for each of them, and that includes Kitto" I opened the robe to frame the rest of

"No, no year If you stripped naked for et a year"