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wasn't going to venture his opinion before
rise from this bed. Even in
hers.
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"Just perfect." She took a sip from her never really feared for him;
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drinking tube, then lifted her face into the he had always been strong,
wind as they drifted through the air. so strong.
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pristine world, and she wanted him to be
quiet. "Let's just enjoy this moment, okay?"
Nilufer raised her eyes to
"Okay." He shrugged his shoulders, enough his. It was not what women
did to men, but she was a
to make a huge whomping flap with his
princess, and he was only a
wings.
bandit. "I want to be a
They glided effortlessly through clear skies Witch," she said. "A Witch
toward the distant beacon of their ship. The and not a Queen. I wish to
two smaller moons zipped visibly across the be not loved, but wise. Tell
young planet's sky. All three were in low your bandit lord, if he can
orbits. give me that, I might accept
his gift."
Even now, it was easy to see the inevitable.
Eventually the moons would crash into the Archived Fiction Dating
planet and destroy the atmosphere, like what back to 9/1/00
had probably happened on Mars. Or the big
one would collide and fragment the planet
into a binary system, with one living and one