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Two Seals
Corin read the words four times. He even re-rolled the vellum and approached the scroll with fresh eyes, to ensure what he’d read wasn't a sleight of magic, or his own fears manifesting some new strange reality.
“Yesenia.” He stood behind his wife. The steam from her bath rose forth and tickled his nose. She only murmured in response, and he realized she’d fallen asleep.
He dropped down beside her. Her obsidian waves fell into delicious curls against the cypress basin. “Yesenia. My love. We’ve talked about this. You could drown.”
Her sleepy smile made him reconsider telling her about the message. He yearned to drop into the warm water beside her and take her in his arms, be lost to the delightful sound of her giggles against his ear as he let his hands search out her favo
