Chapter six
Passion
(Estate of Naer, Standing Four)Did you send her a dream, Moonlight?
Moonlight shakes her beautiful head. No, Geya. I do not know where that dream came from. But I wonder...”
What, my sister?
I wonder if Dai speaks to us, through her.
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The Maitress gave Becka the afternoon off to help her roommate get ready for her dinner engagement with Captain de Vigny. She used her considerable talents to tame Katkin’s unruly chestnut tresses into a becoming style. Then from somewhere deep in her bottom drawer she produced a little pot of rouge, an item that was, of course, strictly contraband for future Daminem. “We will just use a little to make your cheeks sparkle and to shine those lovely lips of yours. No one will ever know, and you will look all the more divine.”
