for that. Not at all.
He kept his head down, voice low. “Why?”
Erawan slid golden, glowing eyes toward
him. Manon’s eyes. “Why what?”
“You might have made yourself lord of a
dozen other territories, and yet you graced us
with this one. I have long wondered why.”
Erawan’s eyes narrowed to slits, and
Dorian kept his face the portrait of groveling
curiosity. Had Vernon asked this before?
A stupid gamble. If Erawan noticed the
sword at his side—
“My brothers and I planned to conquer this
world, to add it to the trove that we’d already
taken.” Erawan’s golden hair danced with the
light of the torches as he walked the long hall.
Dorian had a feeling that when they reached
the tower at the far end, the conversation
would be through. “We arrived at this one,
encountered a surprising amount of resistance,
lily
(lily)
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