The two lovers looked up at the starry sky from the ramparts of the aging castle. A slight breeze whispered about them, smelling of the sea below. "Lass", the man sighed, "Ye are bound ta drive me crazy, but Mithros save me, I love you." The woman looked at him as if he had hit his head one too many times. "George, I know that you love me... and I love you; we've said that, more than once before." George shook his head at her… "Well now, if somebody would'na interrupt me, I would finish what I was saying." With that he took her hands in his, "Alanna, will you be my wife?"
Alanna looked momentarily stunned. She loved George, of course… but marriage? That was something that needed some thinking over. She knew that Jonathan had made George an honorary noble, with the title of Baron of Pirate's Swoop.. The land they were standing on was part of that fief….and George was no longer the King of Thieves….wait a minute….did he still have that gods-awful box of ears?
Alanna smiled at George. "I will be yours, on one condition. First, tell me, do you still have your ear collection?" George nodded... Alanna continued her ultimatum. "You'll have to get rid of it…or give it to the new King… as long as it and I are not in the same place. You have to admit, it is a nasty hobby." George was bewildered; "My ears? Give away me ears? But lass, those ears are reminders to those who are thinkin' of bein' unfaithful to me; and, and I have ears from all the bad crooks... I even have an ear from Pergo the Wild! I can't get rid of me ears!" Alanna frowned. "It's me or the ears, Laddybuck".. With that, Alanna walked off towards the stairwell. George paused for a moment.. and then ran after her.. "Lass, the ears go, tonight!"
Years later, outside the castle of Pirates Swoop, in a small shack, hidden deep within the forest, George sat reminiscing over the good old days, back when he was the King in the Court of the Rogue. He reverently pulled a time worn box from a cabinet, slowly opening it to reveal many brownish, wrinkly objects. He muttered to himself... "She said not in the same place as her..."