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Chapter Five
By the end of the first week of August, the doubts Kicva had felt about the need for a wedding dress for Rhiannon were dissipated. Rhiannon was ready to leave for her father's court, and Math had chosen to go with her. Growling with rage, but not attempting to tear his way out, which he could do and would do if he did not wish to go, Math sat in his traveling basket on the croup of Rhiannon's palfrey. If Math was going, there was no chance that Rhiannon would make any serious mistake.
Kicva was highly amused by the relationship between her daughter and the big cat; obviously Math believed he owned Rhiannon rather than the other way around. And Rhiannon seemed to accept it. However, the fondness Kicva had for Math was not shared by Llewelyn, who kissed his daughter warmly enough in greeting but groaned when a bedlam of barking from the dogs was followed by yelps of pain and fear.
"Have you brought that monster with you again?"

 
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