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the excitement of being captured and the battle that followed, by their strange yet familiar situationthat she came to climax almost as soon as Simon entered her. He was not ready. Near bursting but still reluctant to let his pleasure end, he held off, kissing and caressing until Rhiannon began to moan again, and he brought her with him to a second fulfillment. |
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They slept at once, both of them, like mallet-struck oxen, snuggled into the fleeces and covered by their doubled cloaks, until a cat's yowl and a man's cry of pain and curse woke them. A faint light was coming in through the air vents under the eaves. Simon lifted himself on one elbow to call a warning, but it was not necessary. |
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''Leave it alone," a hoarse voice shouted. "That is the witch-woman's familiar. She will curse youif you need cursing after the cat has done with you." |
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"Damn Math," Rhiannon said faintly, "he is giving me a dreadful reputation." |
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"And undeserved?" Simon teased. "Bassett is sure you are a witch. He would accuse you to the Church, only he does not wish to offend your father. And you have Pembroke badly worried, although not about witchcraft. What on earth did you say to them?" |
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"I? I said nothing, as a modest maiden should," Rhiannon exclaimed, but she started to laugh. "It was that silly man you sent with me and the wagonSiorl. We had a little trouble because there was fighting near the road. We shot two or three, and then a few charged us. Ymlladdperhaps by accident I gave the signal, or he knew what to do himselfhe rose to fight. That must have frightened Math, and he let out a yowl that even startled me. I do not know what those stupid men thought it was, but they turned and ran. I suppose Siorl thought I had told my familiar to drive them away." |
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Simon had to laugh, too. He knew Siorl had regarded Rhiannon with awe ever since the stay at Dinas Emrys. After a minute he frowned. "It is funny and not funny. |
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