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Alcuin could feel the sword sliding into his flesh. Ah Elua, the pain! He thought at first that he was simply reliving his death again, but then he felt silk ropes knotted at his wrists. He was tied to a bed, and when he opened his eyes he saw Vitale Bouvarre pinning him down onto the mattress with the sword. He was naked and hard, his eyes

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"Then I will start at the very beginning," Alcuin said, and took a breath, relaxing a bit into Nikola's embrace. It was easier to tell it as a story. All of it, even if so much of it had once been secrets, such secrets. Now... here... it was little more than a fairy tale

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Alcuin relaxed against him, and shifted so that he was laying half atop him, half beside, curled up tightly in his arms. "Would you mind terribly just holding me until I fall back to sleep?" he asked softly, and kissed his shoulder.

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"Why would I mind that?" Nikola asked, kissing Alcuin's neck and holding him to him. Nikola wouldn't breathe a word of this to anyone let alone Helen, lest she think he was actually falling for Alcuin or worse going soft in his old age.

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"Thank you," Alcuin whispered, and closed his eyes, relaxing. Perhaps it was the safe feeling of being held, or perhaps the catharsis of telling the entire tale, but he suspected the nightmares were over at least for that night.