An assassination attempt from YgrathWith Chiaran participation
And it had very nearly succeeded
Scelto hustled Dianora down the corridor to her rooms and with a bristling protectiveness slammed the door on the nervous, fluttering crowd that clung and hovered in the hallway like so many silk-clad mothsMurmuring continuously he undressed and washed her, and then wrapped her carefully into her warmest robeShe was shivering uncontrollably, unable to speakHe lit the fire and made her sit before itIn docile submission she drank the mahgoti tea he prepared as a sedativeTwo cups of it, one after the otherEventually the trembling stoppedShe still found it difficult to speakHe made her stay in the http://www.enluxury.com/categorys_90_Coco-Chanel-Cambon-Bag_1.html" target="_blank chair before the fireShe didn't want to leave it anyway
Her brain felt battered, numbShe seemed to be utterly incapable of marshaling any understanding, of shaping an adequate response to what had just happened
One thought only kept driving the others away, pounding in her head like the hammer of a herald's staff on the floorA thought so impossible, so disabling, that she tried, with all she could, through the
blinding pulse of an onrushing headache, to block it outThe hammering crashed through, again and again: she had saved his life
Tigana had been a single pulsebeat away from coming back into the worldThe pulsebeat of Brandin that the crossbow would have ended
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How was she to deal with that? How possibly cope with what it meant? She had come here to kill Brandin of Ygrath, to end his life that lost Tigana might live again
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Gradually, very slowly, she began to pull herself togetherFrom the color of the light that gently drifted down through the high windows she knew that the afternoon would be waning towards duskShe rubbed her cheeks and eyes with the backs of her handsShe had to be ready when twilight came; twilight was when Brandin sent to the saishan
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She let them bathe her, let the scented oils soften her skinThere had been blood on it that afternoonThe waters swirled around her and then awayThe attendants washed her hairAfter, Scelto painted the nails of her fingers and toesA soft shade, dusty roseFar from the color of blood, far from anger or griefLater she would paint her lips the same shadeShe doubted they would make love, http://www.snluxury.com/categorys_14_Damier-Geant_1.html" target="_blank thoug