Adeena: What is Lykouleon going to say to Selora?

Suzi: Shut up and listen, maybe?

Adeena: Let's be polite about this, shall we?

Suzi: No thanks, no can do.

Adeena: You'd better or else ...

Suzi: *gulp*

Adeena: One last note. To wulfiesacolyte, I use a spell and grammar checker but they do not always catch everything. As for punctuation, I've always been lousy at that and my betas aren't much better. As for more description, this story didn't come to me with much description, unlike my YYH fic.

Disclaimer: I don't own Dragon Knights.


As Tetheus left the room, Lykouleon approached the occupied chair by the fire. He saw her huddled in the chair, as if to protect herself. This didn't look good, and he wasn't sure if he'd be able to handle it. But … [nothing ventured, nothing gained] he thought, kneeling on the floor in front of her.

"Selora" he spoke quietly, so as not to startle her, "I need you to listen to me for a few minutes. Can you do that?"

She looked at him, with tears standing in her eyes, and nodded.

"I know about your past, and I understand you being frightened because Tetheus caught you in Alfeegi's office and brought you here. I'm not going to send you home. In fact, the only reason Tetheus caught you is because Alfeegi wants to know who's been straightening up his desk."

He paused to see if his words had calmed her any, but one look at her face told him otherwise. If anything, she looked even more terrified. [Oh hell!] he thought. [Guess I'll have to tell her the whole thing.]

He reached out and gently touched her arm, ignoring her flinch, and said "Alfeegi asked me to have Tetheus keep watch on his office, because he wanted to know who was sorting his papers. Alfeegi wants this person, whoever it is, to become his assistant – said it'd be nice to have an assistant who didn't need months of training."

At these words her eyes got slowly wider and the terrified look slowly changed to one of suppressed hope.

As he watched her expression change, he thought [This might actually work.] Out loud he said "Would you come with me to talk to Alfeegi? I think he'd like to know we've got an assistant for him."

"Are you sure you're not going to send me home?"

"I will not send you home. I don't like seeing anyone hurt like you are. Whether or not you become Alfeegi's assistant doesn't matter. If you don't, I'll just have to come up with some other excuse for keeping you here. Now, can we go talk to Alfeegi?" as he stood and held his hand out to help her from the chair.

"Ok" she replied taking his hand and standing.

As they approached the door to his office, someone knocked. They took a step backwards and Lykouleon called "Who is it?"

"Alfeegi, sir. Tetheus said he caught my evening visitor and you were talking over my request. May I come in?"

"Come" Lykouleon replied holding onto her, although she was furiously trying to pull away. As the door opened, and Alfeegi walked in, he turned to her and spoke sharply "There's nothing to worry about. I won't let anyone, or anything, hurt you, so stop struggling, ok?"

As Alfeegi approached the pair, and saw who Lykouleon was talking to, he smiled and said "Selora, it's nice to see you again. Are you the one who's been sorting my papers?"

He saw her try to take a step backwards, but with Lykouleon behind her now, she was unable to move, so she ducked her head instead. He, too, remembered what Kai-stern had said about her. He took a couple more steps towards the pair, then knelt in front of her. He reached out and took hold of one of her hands, and, speaking gently, said "I could really use your help. Would you be willing to do that?"

She slowly raised her eyes to meet his. He smiled at the question he saw in her eyes and said in answer "Yes, I do mean it. You know what you're doing already, so I won't have to spend time teaching you. And it doesn't matter to me that you're a girl, I could care less about that. Are you going to answer me?"

She looked back at Lykouleon, who nodded, and turned back to face him. She pretended to consider his question as he got to his feet. When he was standing again, she smiled and said "On one condition."

"That being?" inquired Alfeegi, getting a little suspicious at the humorous glint in her eyes.

"When I suggest you take a break and relax, you do it" came the reply, to which Lykouleon laughed.

"Agreed" laughed Alfeegi as he took her hand. "Tetheus said you were reading something when he caught you. Care to discuss it?" and started pulling her towards the office door, Lykouleon following.

"Not tonight. Tomorrow morning is soon enough. Take a break, boss. I think I know someone who wouldn't mind spending some private time with you" with a sly look at Lykouleon, who had the grace to blush. "I need to find someone" and walked away.

"Guess she told you" commented Lykouleon as he wrapped his arms around Alfeegi. "Do you really want to talk business right now?" gently nibbling on his ear.

As he shuddered with pleasure, Alfeegi replied "No. I believe that can wait until morning." He reached out and shut the door, then turned in Lykouleon's arms and said "Don't you agree?" His answer was a very demanding kiss, which he surrendered to very quickly.



Adeena: Oh my. That ends the story.

Suzi: No, it doesn't. You haven't revealed who the mysterious man is yet.

Adeena: But Alfeegi has his assistant now. There really isn't any reason to post the last chapter, is there?

Suzi: Yes! You need to let them know who he is. Besides, I want to know their reactions to what happens to Kai-stern at the end.

Adeena: Why don't we let them decide? Let me know if you really want to know the mysterious man's identity.