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– Shar’Darren would be very happy to break the next sensational news that the Lunnick claiming the Senator’s chair had fallen so low that he’d walked in the arms of human women. – A’Leta doesn’t even hide the fact that he revels in triumph.

– Where did you get this?

– Does it matter?

– Yes, he bloody well does! – I raked the pictures into an unstructured pile and slipped them back into the envelope. Somehow, at this moment, I care less about my own reputation at stake than I do about Marguerite’s. If these pictures get out one way or another, she is unlikely to be happy to have her name next to mine in the most unflattering verbal constructions. – I want to know who is watching my every move so insistently.

– Then you’d better change your guard, K’Reig, – A’Leta grinned, – if no one’s been watching. Or. Wait. You didn’t go without a guard, did you?

– What do you want for it? – I deliberately ignore her question. It’s understandable-why give her wounded ego an excuse to stroke herself against the wool.