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for my people"

"But that's not what you need in bed"

"And hoould you know that?"

"By the way you've been eye-fuckingyour sheet Do you knohat I think? I think that deep down, you've alanted a wicked girl Fate knew it, and that's why I was given to you I think you've been taking virtuous wo, virtuous woht to do"

"You have no idea what you're talking about"

"I know everything about you, Rydstroraphies of the very old kind And over the last two days, I've reviewed all the texts on your fa to reconcile ritten hat I know about you personally"

Sweat beaded on his bro much could she have learned?

"For instance, I'd read that you attempted your first female on your thirteenth birthday and your second the day after I believe this to be true"

It was For a de fe to find his consort Rydstrom had taken more fe the fourteen that followed

She continued, "They were all older than you and they were 'ladies,' which is code for 'sexually ignorant' Did they simper? Did they call that your penis instead of your cock?" she asked, pointing a claw -tipped finger at it "And were they too gentle with it?"

Yes to all those questions He hated gentle He wanted to take a woht and feel it the next day When he'd been a young male, he'd had a friend ould show off the claw marks down his back from his latest abandoned conquest Rydstrom had envied hi one stranger after another You had sothat kind of pressure The repeated disappointment"

His bed partners had always been nervous, each one inwardly hoping to break the seal, to becoun to be an ordeal, one e after another "I am sorry that I pulled thy hair"; "Tis fine for you to do so, ­dom" His older brother Nylson and their father had found their fedoms "We had every reason to expect that I could find my female-"

"In a virtuous demoness ould be as selfless as you," she finished in a disgusted tone "And instead you found your queen fifteen centuries later in ratuitously violent sorceress"

"That reave him an amused expression, a victorious one "You took so many to your bed Did you please them all?"

Not even close He answered honestly, "I haven't had any complaints" Because they wouldn't dare And that was a proble in bed And though it ood, it left him cold