Author: Mercedes Lackey
Quotes of Author: Mercedes Lackey
The night-sylphs, all of them, were armed with what looked like swords of glass. The pixies and the tiny ones were armed too, if not with knives and miniature swords , then with their own long claws. The pixies were creatures the size of dolls, but with strange attenuated bodies and long limbs, mostly clothed in colourful rags, and with dragonfly wings. Their joints were knobby, and their faces more animalistic. The smaller ones were also winged, but looked half-human and half-insect, with touches of bat and bird. book-quoteHe'd parted reluctantly from Amily, thinking again with envy of Lena and Bear. One thing that they hadn't been forced to deal with during their courtship was other people . . . "keeping an eye on them." He and Amily must have a hundred "eyes" on them at all times. Amily, after all, was the daughter of the King's Own. Practically every Companion on the Hill was "keeping an eye on her." Literally nothing they did was really private, and if he and Amily got beyond a little kissing and cuddling, it was absolutely guaranteed that within a candlemark her father would know about it.Mags wasn't entirely sure what Nikolas's reaction to that would be. He had shown himself to be a reasonable man. His objections to Bear and Lena getting married on the sly had all been rational ones that had everything to do with political situations. Everyone knew that Mags and Amily were a couple. No one objected to that. There would be no political repercussions. . . .But the difference was that Nikolas was not dealing with a couple of younglings in the abstract, he was dealing with his "apprentice" and his daughter.From what Mags could tell, based on what his friends here said, things he'd read, and things Dallen had dropped, a man could be perfectly rational about a pair of younglings coupling, even give tacit approval {at least to the young man} right up until that coupling involved his daughter. Then rational thought went flying right out the window.So . . . for now, kissing and cuddling was all he was going to get.And, oh, how he envied Bear. book-quote
