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Saetan called in the half-e Twice
“It’s very carefully worded,” Saetan said “Too carefully worded”
He had the sae from Cassidy’s Steward Do you think there’s trouble?”
“Almost certainly And just as certainly, they don’t want us asking questions right now about why the Queen has suddenly changed her residence frohouse in a se located in a Shalador reserve”
Daemon frowned as he stared at the note The report Cassidy had sent after her return fro, but he’d sensed nothing froue Now
“Has she gone back to Eyota to fix a probleet away from one?”
Handing the lasses and vanished them “Let’s see what Cassidy says in her next report What she doesn’t say about thisas what she does say”
Daemon vanished the paper “I’ll ask my second-in-command to deliver the next batch of letters to Cassidy”
“Who?”
He s to work for me”
“Doing what?”
“As far as I can figure out, whatever she da her for this privilege, only that I’enerous I can send her and Rainier to Eyota Between the we need to know”
“Speaking of everything we need to know, I understand Jaenelle and Ladvarian went to Scelt to talk to Morghann and Khary Do you have any idea why?”
“No,” Dae”
Saetan s a wisea smart husband”
CHAPTER 12
TERREILLE
The evening after their return to Eyota, Cassidy drank the restorative brew Shira had ue, discuss, and soure out how to shoehorn a court into the boardinghouse And that wouldn’t do at all It would be like having too uests crammed into her mother’s house at Winsol—fine for a few days when everyone was feeling cheerful and acco she would want to live with permanently
Whichto let them shift it
“Gentlemen,” she said quietly
Gray was the first to focus his attention on her; Ranon was a close second, followed by Talon and Powell, which forced the others to s their opinions so they could hear what she had to say
“A court is formed when twelve males make the coth, their skills, and their loyalty There is nothing in any book of Protocol that says they have to live with her In Kaeleer,froe enough to accommodate the whole court” She smiled at them
Twelve men frowned at her So did Shira—and Reyhana, who had returned to Eyota to be of service to the Queen of Dena Nehele
“Ranon, do the Shalador Queens live in houses large enough to acco he’d give her the answer that would help make her point
“There are no official courts in the Shalador reserves,” Ranon said “The Queens merely help the elders keep the people under control so they will not offend the Province Queens or Territory Queen” Then he stopped, and his expression revealed a man torn between loyalties
“What you mean is, in order to protect the Queens and the men ere loyal to theht have been viewed as a challenge,” Cassidy said gently “A Queen who can’t form an official court has no more power than any other witch because the court is the instrument by which she rules”