George notices her shutter as she stepped inside the palace. "Are ya cold?"

"Nope just discussed I never thought I'd be up here for any reason even one so meaningless as having a cup of tea with my lovers father. And you can stop talking like that I know you know that I'm well educated." Flari walked next to me like she knew where we were headed and for all I knew she did it'd been a very old time since I had a real mystery on my hands and that's when I notice a symbol of the Trickster dangling from around her neck.

"So you're in his servious is he trying to take all my kids."

"What in all the realms are you speaking of?" She demanded

"You wear a symbol of the Trickster. I just assumed you do live at the dove after all." I explained.

"I serve the Great Mother Goddess no one less such as this trickster you speak of." She responded and then she ducked her head and blushed like a young court lady and glaced to the side so lost in this mystery I didn't even notice Numair as he came up.

"George I was looking for you the king wishes to see you. Who's this young lady?" Numair asked with a smile and a slight bow as he tried to take her hand to bring it to his lips but she flinched back away from him. Once a player always a player or so they say. He was only trying to play with the girl and she looked like a rat in a trap waiting for the snap.

"She's a friend of Alan's." I answered as I watch Numair as the truth dawned on him and then the girl did the most baffling thing yet she fainted and I know she did it on purpose but it was a real faint not a trick she used her Gift to make herself faint. We took he up to the healers wing and left her there while I went to see the king. When I came back I grabbed my wives former squire.

"What do you think of the girl?" I asked him knowing he'd understand.

"She's no spy she's well educated and very good at pretending to sleep but I think you and I both know that what she's hiding is a master's name." Neal answered in a hushed voice. "I think from what you said when you brought her in that she was trying to get away from Numair. She's got more Gift than I have that's for sure and she seems to know how to use it better than any city girl has right to. That is what I think. I think you should bring Numair in here and she if she tries to escape again." Neal finished

"That is a great idea. Such a great idea I think I must be losing my touch to not have thought of it first I need Ally around to keep me sharp. I'll go get him make sure she does not leave." Nearly an hour passed in my hunt for Numair who was apparently playing hid and seek with half the palace as everyone thought he was suppose to be some where else than where I actually found him in his rooms playing with his children. After a quick talk I had him and Sara following me back to the healers wing.

"Just lets see what she does come in after me." I walked in and went up to the bed she sat in.

"Sorry about that I don't know what came over me."

By the gods this girl is a master lair I wonder what lies she spilled into my son's ear.

"Baron George a minute please?" Neal asked

"What is it?"

"She drained her gift she got up and wondered all over the wing while you were gone and healed everyone that was here or came in and gave a young women the news that she is now carrying twins. I'd be shocked if she's got any gift left for him to see."

"She a crafty one isn't she and those eyes if I didn't know better I'd swear she was Alanna's younger sister. Well lets see how she acts here comes Numair,"

"Beautiful lady." Sara cried. "What's your name lady?" Sara asked

"Sorry she likes to know everything." Numair explain proudly.

"It's no trouble at all of course. Child you've been blessed by a goddess to you wish to be blessed again?" And before any of us could do anything Sara nodded her little head and Flari lifted her hand above the girls head drew a strange symbol and said "Bless this child of your this daughter of the earth in all the paths she may wonder for all of her days keep her from being mislead by the wills of others and keep her pure and safe till she chooses to give herself to another and not one moment before she chooses. Be blessed in the name of the Great Mother Goddess." Sara's entire being lit up for the smallest portion of a second and then faded as if it had never been.

"Who are you really?" Numair asked but he made no move to get Sara away from her so whatever the spell she used must have just been for blessing as she'd said.

"Me? I'm just a lower city girl whose caught the eye of a young squire that's all no one really I'm sure he'll come to his senses soon enough and realize that I'm no noble lady meant for marryin'. I'm just a commoner no one of any real importance at all."

Her acted was good but she was laying it on a bit thick down cast eyes a light blush staining her cheeks the shine in her eyes like unshed tears and the slight quiver to her voice like she was ashamed that she couldn't offer Alan more and sad at the thought of losing him to someone better fitting his station. "You're a noble aren't you?" I'd figured it out she flinched when I said it and she glared at me like I'd called her some common whore.

"Don't you ever call me a noble again George Cooper or I'll make sure you regret it. And I'll have you know that your son knows just how I feel about nobles I'll have nothing to do with this false freedom that this world wraps it women in. I'd rather dance in a pit of honest thieves than dance up here in a pit of lies and deception. Don't trouble yourself with me any long Mr. Cooper because your son will come to his senses as soon as the headedness of first love wears off and he see that he could have nothing with me since I'll never consent to becoming apart of this world. And since I know he truly wants what this world has to offer him I'd never let him abandon it for me neither. Good day and don't come around looking for me again or I'll you fight off the people who'd be happy to kill you."

And with that she was gone.