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table cuss that it should take her days to pry any kind of an
answer from him."

"That's a relief!" he said, looking more than relieved.
"It's not that I want to be critical, butЧ"

"But Mentia is slightly crazy," Metria finished. "And you
married me, not my worser half. But because she did fission
off from me, being disgusted by my new goody-goody atti-
tude after I got half your soul, we can't keep her away. She's
the half of me you naturally don't likeЧthe soulless half,
dedicated to making your life half-muled."

"Half-whatted?"

"Horsed, equined, donkeyed, asininedЧ"

He kissed her. "I think I could fathom the word if I con-
centrated. Let's make hay while the sun shines."

She looked perplexed. "Hay? I thought you had
something else in mind." A tantalizing wisp of strategically
placed clothing appeared.

"I love it when you tease me," he said, picking her up
and carrying her to the master bedroom.

She assumed the form of a nymph. "Eeeeek!" she cried
faintly, kicking her marvelous bare legs in the nymphly way.
"Whatever am I going to do?"

"You're going to make me deliriously happy, you lus-
cious creature."

She inhaled, enhancing what hardly needed it. "0, sigh,
how can I escape this hideous fate?" she wailed cutely, kiss-
ing him on eye, ear, nose, and throat.

They fell together on the bed, in a tangle of limbs, faces,
kisses, and whatnot. "You are the best thing that ever hap-
pened to me," Veleno gasped around the activity. "You're
just the most wonderful, beautiful, lovable, exciting, fantastic
person in all Xanth'"

"You damn me with faint praise," she muttered, clasping
him with such ardor that description would be improper.

Another demoness popped into the chamber. "Oh, there
you are, Metria!" she exclaimed. "No wonder I couldn't find