Usagi sighed as she sat down on the familiar bed. She had slept here before, when she had been staying in Nemesis a while back. After the
slight confrontation with Saffir, she felt even more emotionally exhausted. She wanted to just lie down here and sleep
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Then again, Beryl has been executed. And she was never Saffir's sister as Demando is Saffir's brother.
Demando pours a glass of wine. He glances back at the decanter, then at Usagi. "I'll pour you some, too."
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She's tempting like that, he can't help noticing, and it requires effort to remind himself that she seems tired and worn and unlikely to appreciate his advances. (It's a troublesome thing, to moderate one's appetites when there's never been a need to do so before. But for her- To have the beautiful princess at last... He will do it, lest he lose her.)
"You're still as beautiful each time I see you," he tells her as he sits. "Your portraits do you no justice."
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