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"talk"

'thoughts'

"Lyna…w-what are you saying?" Tea stammered.

She knew perfectly well what it was that Lyna was talking about, it was just a topic she didn't talk much about. But Lyna didn't seem to notice the deep red blush spreading across the princess' cheeks.

"Come, sit beside me," Lyna beckoned, sitting on the edge of the princess' bed and patting the spot beside her.

Tea folded her hands in front of her and slightly hung her head, letting her long brown bangs cover her face. She sat beside Lyna and looked at the floor.

"Now, your journey to Egypt will be long and tiring. However, first impressions are always key, so make sure to try and come off elegant and…"

Tea's mind tuned out, as it usually did when it came to talking about royal behaviour. It bored her out of her mind. But Lyna knew this. "Tea!" she scolded, regaining the princess' attention.

Sighing slowly Tea rolled her eyes and looked back at the woman. "Now, as I was saying, your first impression to the pharaoh must be one of grace, elegance and –Tea! Pay attention!"

Seto paced his room slowly. The king had insisted he sleep in one of the grandest guest rooms in the palace. But the high priest wasn't tired. He was trying to hatch a plan on how to get the princess safely to his cousin and get back to his actual job. 'The real problem is the area around the palace…' he thought. Finally feeling defeated, he let himself fall onto the comfortable bed. He placed his hands behind his head and sighed, closing his eyes. An image of he princess flashed before his closed eyelids.

'Damn', he thought, sitting up and looking out the window at the starry night sky.

"The last thing I need is that damn harpy invading my thoughts," he mumbled, lying down and turning on his side, his arms crossed at his chest. In a moment he was asleep, and he dreamt of the Greek goddess, his cousin's future wife, and country's future queen.

Tea blinked, trying to keep herself awake. She saw Lyna's lips moving but nothing seemed to come out. Lyna snapped her fingers in front of Tea's eyes and she flinched in surprise.

"Now, when the two of you are alone…" Lyna continued.

Tea listened but also let her thoughts wander. 'What if he isn't attractive? What if he's shy and we barely talk? What if he never has time for me?' Tea groaned in frustration, but kept listening to Lyna. "A trick you can try is to slowly, and softly, lick the edge of his ear," she suggested. Tea raised a brow. "Lick his ear?" she repeated in slight disgust. Lyna nodded. "You will enjoy it yourself, do not worry about that. And you can run your fingers up and down the small of his back."

Tea listened quite surprised as Lyna talked about these things like they were the most natural things in the world. "Uh, Lyna…" she said. The older woman stopped and looked at her. "Could we continue this at some other time? I'm getting a little tired."

Lyna sighed. "You have time to run around outside the palace yet you do not have the slightest patience to listen to me when I'm trying to explain something to you that could-"

"Alright! Continue," Tea said, resting her elbow on her knee and her chin on her palm. Lyna nodded and went on.

"The other thing men like is when you nip at their neck and chest." Tea's face went blank.

"They like it?" she asked, trying to confirm what Lyna had just told her.

"Of course they do." Lyna said as a matter of factly. Tea closed her eyes and tried to imagine herself kissing a man's chest. Almost immediately, the handsome face of the priest appeared in her mind. With lightning speed, she opened her eyes wide.

"Something wrong?" Lyna inquired noticing her reaction.

"No. Nothing." Tea said, trying to regain control of her racing heart.

"Ok." Lyna said suspiciously, but continued their conversation. "Anyway, as I was saying, another thing you need you need to do when in bed with him is to be submissive. Men like their women to be obedient and submissive. It adds to their ego."

"So I just lay there and let him do whatever he wants?" Tea asked, her voice rising a bit.

"Well yes." Lyna said. "I know it's against your nature, but you will have to mold yourself to his liking if you want his favour."

"I don't care. I'm not going to be a sitting duck." Tea said stubbornly, and Lyna sighed.

"Tea, you have to understand that--." Lyna began in a motherly tone, but was interrupted by the angry princess.

"I don't want to hear anything. I don't want to learn anything. I'm fine the way I am. Besides, it's not like he is a learned master." As far as Tea knew, the pharaoh was young, and as naïve as her.

"He might be Tea." Lyna said.

"What do you mean?" Tea asked.

"Tea, you don't know this, but the concubinage is still practiced in Egypt, and from what I've heard, the pharaoh has three concubines."

"What?" Tea nearly screamed. She knew about concubinage, but she didn't expect her future husband to already have three girls in his bed.

"Just because we abolished it doesn't mean it's ended." Lyna said.

"But I thought that it was an old and vile tradition practiced only in illiterate states." Tea said.

"That's what your father has told you, yes, but that is his opinion. I know many people in Greece who want to have concubines. Your father was given a concubine as a gift on his 16th birthday too, but he refused to accept it. Instead, he hired the girl as one of the servant gardeners. I remember her well. She was pretty little thing, so delicate, so beautiful." Lyna spoke with a fond smile on her face, eyes shinning with memories of the time gone by. Tea listened intently.

"Even though your father denied it, I knew she had captured his heart the moment he saw her. But your father was a man of honour. He refused to take her in as apleasure slave. Your grandfather, on the other hand, thought the opposite." At this, Tea's interest piped up even more. The topic of her grandfather was ignored pretty much all the time. She knew nothing about him except his name and that he was a great ruler. But that she had learned from palace guards and servants. Her father never spoke of him, and ignored her questions about him. Now that Lyna was speaking, somehow it didn't appear as a fond remembrance.

"Your father was quite friendly with the servant girl, and they often spent a lot of time together." Lyna continued. "But your grandfather was against this friendship. He told your father to either take the girl as a concubine, or leave her alone for good. Your father, being the man he was, refused both. So your grandfather decided to take in the girl as his concubine." Tea gasped in horror. Her grandfather was planning to take in a girl that was his daughter's age, as his concubine. Disgusting.

"Your father tried to persuade your grandfather to change his mind, but your grandfather was set. He even managed to force the girl in his chambers one night and was going to rape her, but your father came just in time and saved the girl's virginity. But of course, this angered your grandfather to no extent. He told your father to fight him to decide who had the power in this kingdom. Can you imagine Tea, a grown man fighting his 16 year old, inexperienced son? " The horrified expression on Tea face gave Lyna the answer she wanted.

"What… happened?" Tea asked. Lyna sighed sadly, but continued anyway.

"They fought, and your father defeated your grandfather. Both men were badly injured, but the injuries of your grandfather's ego were ones that became the reason of his demise. Ashamed of his defeat, he killed himself, right before your father's eyes." Lyna was silent for a while, but she soon spoke.

"When your father was recovering from his injuries, the servant girl was by his side, helping him deal with the mental anguish your father was experiencing. And that was when your father made the most critical and successful decision of his life. He decided to marry that servant girl, and make her his queen." Tea's mouth hung open in shock. She couldn't believe what she was haring. Her mother was nothing more than a lowly servant girl, and her grandfather almost raped her mother.

"And when your father became king, he abolished concubinage form Greece for good." Lyna finished and stared at the young princess before her. "But it's still common in Egypt. I'm sure many nobles have concubines along with their wives. Concubines of nobles have a high status in the household. So, they would have quite some power in the palace as well." Tea was silent for a while, staring at her hands.

"I can't believe my future husband has three concubines. It's… disgusting." Tea finally said. Lyna shook her head and spoke.

"Yes he does. And that's why you need to know all that I have to teach you. Tea, he will have three other sources of pleasure and comfort available to him. If you are not to his liking, he will turn to someone else and satisfy himself. And so you have to make sure he never turns to anyone else."

"But how can I do that? I'm sure those girls are more… experienced then me." Tea said in a defeated tone.

"That might be, but looks and tricks are not the only things you need to know to beat the other girls. Tea, you will be his wife, and the queen of Egypt. So you will have his respect, something the other girls may not have. And plus, you will be new, so he'll want to learn about you. That's when you have to be careful about what he learns. Reveal yourself to him, but not all at once. Reveal bits of your personality, so he is always in thirst of knowing more. Keep the most attractive parts of your personality well hidden and reveal them only for him and only when you are alone." Lyna continued to talk and this time, Tea listened intently. She thought the only thing she had to worry about was adjusting in a new life. She never knew she would have competition for her husband's attention.

'Things just keep getting better and better.' She thought sarcastically.

"Got it?" Lyna's voice shook Tea out of her thoughts.

"What? Oh… yes. Yes." She quickly said, nodding fiercely as well. Lyna just sighed.

"I worry for you Tea. I really do." She said with a worried look on her face. Tea smiled and threw her arms around the older woman in a gentle hug.

"That's your problem. You worry too much." Lyna only smiled at the young princess.

"Now go to sleep. You have to wake up mighty early tomorrow." She told Tea and got off the bed. Tea nodded and closed her eyes, letting Lyna blow the candles lighting the room, and close the door.

But even the darkness wasn't able to put her to sleep. Deep within the night, Tea found herself wide awake, and imagining about her new life. Would she be able to settle in a new society, in a new lifestyle? Would she be able to accept her husband for who he was? Would he spend more time with her than his concubines? Would he love her? Would she be able to love him?

So many questions that would be left unanswered… at least for a while. She had told herself that she would have no choice but to accept what was thrown her way by fate. But that didn't stop thoughts from rising.

Would she be able to "satisfy" him? If she followed Lyna's advice, she probably would. But in order to satisfy him, she would have to do all that Lyna told her. She had never done nor seen that done before. But she was sure he had… and many times too.

'I wonder how they feel when someone kisses their neck or chest?' She thought. Suddenly, an image of the high priest, with his eyes closed in ecstasy and head thrown back, appeared in her mind. With a gasp of shock, she opened her eyes.

"That was…" scary? Creepy? Weird? Disgusting? Wrong?

So many words appeared in her mind, but none escaped her lips except one.

"Unexpected."

"That was truly unexpected." She repeated to herself. "I definitely need to get some sleep or the high priest will most likely accuse me of being lazy." The thought of him brought a sweet smile to her face, and with these thoughts in her head, she nestled herself in sleep's embrace.

Seto twisted and turned in his bed, body glistening with sweat. His hands clutched the sheets in a powerful grip, as ragged breaths escaped his lips.

"Mmm." A moan escaped his lips, but as soon as it reached his sensitive ears, his eyes snapped open. He quickly glanced around the room to see if someone had entered, but found no one.

'Was it me who made that sound?' he questioned himself as he fell back on the bed. He glanced at his sweat-drenched body and growled in anger.

'Damn it. Damn it all to hell.' He swore to himself and got out of the bed. The sheets rubbed against his aroused body, causing another grown to escape his lips.

'How could she do this to me?' he thought angrily. 'How could she reduce me to this… this state? How?'

'I need to take a cold shower.' He told himself and walked towards the bathing chamber built inside the guest chamber.

After his very cold shower, he stepped out of the chamber and entered his temporary bedroom, where all his belongings were placed. He quickly gathered his stuff. Night had passed and the rays of sun would soon land upon the earth. He had very little time left to prepare their departure. He planned to leave the state of Greece before sunrise. This way, it would take him one day and one night to reach the borders of Egypt.

'But with the girl on my side, it'll probably take twice as long.' He thought. These were going to be two toughest days of his life, he could tell. He, who had grown in the lap of danger and challenges, now feared the presence of a mere girl, an incredibly beautiful girl whom he had developed an attraction for. He had been denying that ever since he laid eyes on her, but last night's… "vivid" dreams of her body wrapped arround his, his lips worshipping her skin, and his pleased moans had made it quite difficult to deny it anymore. And thus came the new dilemma. How was he to protect her when he couldn't even protect him from her?

Voices of the palace servants waking up and moving about brought him out of his thoughts. A defiant expression appeared on his face as he stared out the window overlooking the garden.

'No one has the power to bring me down, be it physically or emotionally, and neither does she.' He told himself.'No matter what tricks she has coming my way, I'll counter them all. She won't bring me down.'

please review people.

pweease. pwetty pweease with seto sitting on top. with tea in his lap. (tempting huh)

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