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." She kissed Sturm's muscular shoulder.
"Then who's been taking the women hostage all these
months?" Palin demanded.
"Well, we did, of course," said the dark-haired beauty.
"You?" Palin said, stunned. He put his hand to his
forehead and noticed his skin felt abnormally hot. He was
dizzy, and his head ached. The room and everything in it
seemed to be just slightly out of focus.
"This is a wonderful life! " said the blonde, sitting back,
and teasingly rebuffing Sturm's attempts to pull her down.
"The Graygem provides all we need. We live in luxury.
There is no work, no cooking and mending - "
"No children screaming - "
"No husbands coming back from battle, bleeding and
dirty - "
"No washing clothes in the stream day after day - "
"No endless talks of war and bragging about great deeds
- "
"We read books," said the dark-haired beauty. "The
wizard has many in his library. We became educated, and
we found out we didn't have to live that kind of life
anymore. We wanted our sisters and our mothers to share
our comfortable surroundings with us, so WE kept up the
ruse, demanding that hostages be brought to the castle until
all of us were here."
"Bless my beard!" exclaimed the dwarf in awe
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