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animal a different way. Clearly audible on the other side of the door, the guard dog
began barking.

Laeth narrowed his eyes at her, but waving Marri out of sight of the door, he
called out in a loud voice, "Girl! Go see what is wrong with that plaguing dog, and


shut it up!" He strode to the bed and sat down on it, beginning to struggle with the
remaining close-fitting, knee-high boot.

"Yes, Master," Rialla replied demurely and yanked at the ties that held her hair
up. She bit her lips to make them look kissed and opened the ties at the top of her
tunic.

She cracked the door and slipped out, but not before she gave the man outside a
clear view of Laeth tugging at his boot. She didn't recognize the man holding the
dog, but that wasn't surprising. He wore the uniform of the guardsЧthey kept
mostly to the grounds and away from the keep; she only knew the indoor servants.

He took a good look at her and lost a few more inches of leather to the straining
dog. She bit her bottom lip and leaned back against the door with all the sultriness a
dance-trained slave was capable of displaying.

"What's wrong with him?" she asked in a husky voice.

The man's mouth opened, but nothing came out.

Laeth's voice carried clearly through the door. "Shut that beast up now!"

Rialla gave a squeak of fright and ran to the dog, crooning, "Shh, puppy, that's a
good boy."

That pulled the guard's attention from the shadows of her cleavage. "Don't. He's
a trained guard dogЕ He'll kill you." He said the last in a small voice as the dog
rolled over in ecstasy onto the slave's lap while she rubbed his belly.

She turned her big emerald eyes at the guard and said inanely, "I've always had a
way with dogs. Do you think that he'll start barking again, if I quit petting him? My
master has an awful temper: if he hears the dog bark again, he's liable to kill it." She
watched the guard closely and whispered, "And probably you as well."

Everyone knew that Laeth had spent the last two years training in Sianim. Rumor
had it, truthfully enough, that Laeth's temper was even more impressive than his
outrageousness.

The big guard swallowed and grabbed the dog's collar. As he did so, Rialla
touched his hand briefly for a minute and caught a stray thought:Е couldn't use the
coppers I'll get for this job if I were a corpseЕ

He'd been paid to spy, but on whom? Rialla watched as the guard tugged the