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Chapter 14

Lykouleon looked out at the cloudy afternoon sky. He felt relieved to have talked about his problems but...He didn't say everything. The dragon Lord sighed. He knew there were many restrictions on Kai-Stern right now from security and his doctor. And for an adventuring spirit, it can be maddening. To cause anymore problems by discussing unnecessary things would just be unfair to the blue dragon officer.

"Lykouleon." Raseleane peaked around the door to the balcony.

"Raseleane?" He stood immediately recognizing an excited tone in her voice. She was smiling like a little girl. The dragon lord could help but smile back at her. "What is it?" he came to her.

"This." The red headed queen of dragons stepped back into the room and turned around to give her lord the best view she could of her stunning dress.

Her dark red hair was up, her curls sweeping over to one side of her face. White flowers and pearls were strewn through out the gorgeous mesh. She wore a branching necklace that had a large black onyx as the center of golden veins.

The dress was dark green. It was so dark that in a dimmer light it would probably look black. The design led accents of gold ribbon over the edge that arched over the bodice and connected to large green puffs at her shoulders. A cream colored cloth trailed down the arms under the green ties that fastened them. That same cream was curtained by the skirt of her dress.

"You look beautiful." he noticed her earrings. A thick ribbon of gold curled to cradle a sphere of green that resembled a tear drop. "As you always do." The blond lord embraced her and kissed her forehead. She giggled and stood back for him to look again. "What's the occasion?"

"I'm going to sweep Kai-Stern off his feet." She smiled brightly.

"You'll..." he blinked not sure what his queen was thinking sometimes.

"That's right." She nodded matter-of-factly. "I was talking to

Minna and I said, 'You're heart will only forget if you let it.'" She put a hand to her chin. "Or something like that."

"Okay." he prompted her to continue.

"And then it hit me." she proclaimed. "Kai-Stern's memory loss could be an affliction of the heart." the dragon queen touched her chest.

"You think so?" Lykouleon hadn't considered that.

"It's very possible." Raseleane grabbed her husband's hand. Gold eyes seemed to look through him. Green eyes blinked, but couldn't be torn away. "Kai-Stern is a good man and highly admired by a certain some one." she winked at the lord who blushed immediately.

//Oh God! Does she know? The infirmary isn't a unique room she could have just opened the door and...She asked me before if I was alright. Was she trying to ask me about what happened?//

"This person," she giggled like secrecy was a game, "Who shall remain nameless." Gold eyes looked at him expectantly. "Is too shy to say anything."

"I'm not shy I just..." Lykouleon let his blond bangs hide his expression as he spoke under his breath.

"So I'll have to do something myself. I'll convince Kai-Stern that we both care for him very much and would never ask him to do anything he doesn't want to." the golden eyed queen smiled.

"Raseleane." Lykouleon said her name so softly.

"Don't worry." she waved a hand. "Love will come." she smiled. "Even if I have to give it a kick in the behind." A gold eye winked at him as she turned to leave.

"Raseleane." He caught her wrist. She turned back perhaps a bit confused.

"You're not going to stop me are you? Or do you want to come with me?" She pointed at him.

"No, I..." Green eyes looked deeply into gold.

"What?" she touched that warm hand over her wrist.

"You really don't mind? I mean about Kai-Stern. I'm not sure if it's love yet but...if it is..." The lord was nervous as all get out. Was he really asking his queen, the women he pledged his undying love to, such a question? "You're not mad?"

"Why would I be mad?" The dragon queen smiled that brilliant smile. "Love is a miracle. I wish ever one could be in love like we are." she squeezed his hand. Lykouleon lifted her hand to his mouth, kissed it tenderly and cradled it against his cheek.

"Raseleane." He didn't let the tear fall but he felt it pool at the side of his green eye.

"Lykouleon." Gold eyes looked at him with such a soft expression. The dragon Lord wondered how he could ever love some one else and yet...the feeling were there and large as life.

No. He loved Raseleane in a completely different way. Kai-Stern was a very precious person to him. He felt a pounding in his chest when the other was near. His body cried out to just be near the blue dragon officer. And yet, something in the pit of his stomach twisted like salt in a wound when they were together anymore. Guilt perhaps. //Or is it uncertainty, the possibility, that he may not return my feelings.//

"I believe in him, like I believe in you." Raseleane told him before she pulled away gently and left the room, with a song in her step.