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under their breaths. Then, "Six," Rod said, and, "seven..."

On cue, four small faces filled the window behind them,
with cries of "God e'en!" "Good night. Mama!" "Well betide
thee!"

Rod grinned, and Gwen answered with a pursed smile.
They waved, then turned and strode off down the path.

"We're lucky," Rod reminded her.

"Indeed." Gwen sighed. "But 'twill be pleasant to have
some few hours to ourselves once more."

They wandered into the twilit forest, with his arm about
her, she with a dreamy, contented smile, he just contented.

"And wither wilt thou carry me away, my lord?" she
murmured.

Rod smiled down at her. "I ran into a little old lady who
was trying to haul some firewood home on her backтАФand
having very rough going, stumbling and cursing, and need-
ing to put it down every ten feet or so. So I let her ride
Fess, and I carried the wood as far as the crossroads where
her son was going to meet her. She thanked me a lot and,
favor for favor, took me on a short detour and showed me
a little glade with a beautiful mini-pond." He heaved a sigh.
"I swear I never knew there was something so pretty, so
close to homeтАФexcept, of course, the ones who are in it."

She looked up at him, amused; but he saw the dreaminess
behind the smile, and shook a finger at her. "Now, don't



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you dare try to tell me it's just like the days when we were
courting! We only got to know each other in the middle of
a minor civil war." ^

"Aye; yet did I bethink me of the days thereafter."

"Right after the war, we got married."

She snuggled her head up against his chest. "'Tis what
I did mind me of."