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"What else did this friend of yours say?" Sariana asked suspiciously

"About us? Not much I didn't tell him the link we have in bed seems to have already extended itself to other occasions Normally the ability to sense when one's Shield process that takes years of living together to ht be labeled telepathic Even then it would be hard to distinguish it from the normal empathy that seeether for years Except in bed, of course, where it stays unique But with us it was there al It's sporadic at this point, but it's also very strong I think it's going to eventually grow even stronger"

Sariana thought of the ie of her backside that had popped into her ed on her lower lip and gazed into the fire while she considered it Experi it toward Gryph, just as she had projected her passionate delanced at Gryph

"You see what Iexpression

"We would have no privacy at all," Sariana said in shock as she considered the raly "I don't think it ork like that I think ill have to be actively

projecting in order to send anything even re prisma"

"Well, what about that - that lewd picture of rinned, showing his teeth in the firelight "I was bored For once you didn't seem inclined to talk so

I decided to do a little, experi I just wanted to see ould happen if I tried projecting a scene into your mind This is the first time you've ad whether or not you had received it Which should tell you so"

"What does it tell me?" Sariana asked automatically, Then she leaped to the obvious conclusion "Oh, I see I didn't send anything back to you so you had no way of knowing if I had gotten the ht I'll admit I don't know much about telepathy Shields and theirthat could be labeled genuine telepathy But judging fro pristh and a deliberate focus"

"And both factors come into play automatically under conditions of extreme stress, is that it?" "And under conditions of passion," he added blandly "Don't fret, Sariana, I can't read your mind any

more than any other man can read a wohtly The truth was she was feeling extremely nervous about the whole matter She rose and settled herself onto a convenient rock "What are we going to do now?"

"That's s get sticky Now, thanks to you, I've got a fix on a large source of pris I will stash you safely here in this cove and then I will see if I can track the beain"

She didn't like the casual way he said that "Then what?"

Gryph shrugged in that gracefully negligent manner all westerners seemed to be born with "Then I'll