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need to ask, Lalaas?” Amne said, a defiant tone in her voice.
    “Not really,” Lalaas said.  “I was merely making conversation.”
    “Well don’t!” Amne snapped, then she put a hand on his arm.  “I’m sorry, I’m just not liking this at all.”
    Lalaas, her confidant, friend and the Captain of the Palace Guard, sighed.  “I’d rather you didn’t see that man; he’s a very ambitious and dangerous fellow.  You know my feelings about it all.”
    “Oh don’t be a bore,” Amne said, holding his arm and guiding him into the passageway beyond the door.  They were on the ground floor of the servant’s wing, and they made their way through it towards the plusher areas.  “I only agreed to this so I could at least get some enjoyment out of it!  He is a desirable man, after all!”
    “You’ll come unstuck one of these days, Amne,” Lalaas observed.  “Your passion will be your undoing one of these days.”
    “Jealous; you just want me yourself.”
    Lalaas smiled.  They both knew he would never have her as long as she was married to Prince Elas.  “What shall I tell the Prince?”
    “Oh, that Dragan is making his final plans.  I think he’s going to make his move very soon.  He thinks I can’t live without him and will sacrifice my marriage and endanger my children just for one part of his anatomy!”
    They were now by the door that opened onto the residential part of the palace.  Beyond were plusher corridors.  Lalaas kept his voice quiet.  “I just wish you’d not gain the information that way, ma’am.”
    Amne made an exasperated noise.  “Lalaas, if I can’t enjoy what I’m doing, then there’s no point in me doing it!  I can’t see Dragan conspiring with anyone else in the palace, can you?  He thinks I can’t resist him and will do whatever he wishes.  He’s such a naïve man – and egotistical.  He thinks he’s using me.”  She giggled against Lalaas who enjoyed the feeling.  “Yet all the time I’m using him.  Yes, I’m enjoying it – he is good at that, after all, and my darling corpse of a husband gives me no pleasure at all.  I have to get my pleasures from somewhere, after all.  You won’t do the deed so I’ve got to find someone!  Just imagine what I’d be like without it for a moon.  I’d be climbing the walls in frustration.”
    “Do you need it that much, Amne?”
    Amne nodded.  “I can’t help it.  I have such an urge.  You don’t hate me for that, do you?”
    Lalaas shook his head slowly.  “No – I may disapprove of some things you do but it doesn’t mean I dislike you.  You’re someone I care for very much.”
    Amne put her head on his shoulder, and he stroked her hair for a moment.  Amne made a soft sighing sound.  “Oh, Lalaas – if only…..”
    He placed a finger against her lips, and she kissed it.  He opened the door quietly and peered along the corridor left and right.  He allowed Amne to precede him through the door and he shut it after he followed.  Amne smiled at him and then walked along to the left towards the great hall and the staircase that led up to the bedrooms while Lalaas went the other way towards the offices.  Although it was now night, Prince Elas, Amne’s husband, would still be hard at work administering the province and the city.
    Elas, a stern, sharp-faced man, was indeed in his office, guarded by two of the elite palace guard, armed with their fearsome looking pole-arm weapons, the volgar.  Elas looked up at Lalaas as he came in.  “Ah, Captain, you have news, I trust?”
    “Indeed sire.  It would appear the rebel Dragan Purfin is close to making his move.  He has been told that your wife is fully behind him in getting rid of you, and he is now gathering a small force to back his coup.”
    Elas leaned back and regarded Lalaas coolly.  “Then the traitor will be executed.  I shall shortly go and plan how to crush this attempted coup.  We now need to finalise a plan to take this