Why was he so worried about? why he should not move? he asked himself looking at the girl with her head bowed and her forehead still facing the back of his palm.
-It is an ancient ritual of the high shadow diplomats, my king.
-What? the king asked in disbelief. She was a diplomate? At her age? Was she not suppose to be old and wise and experienced in order to be a diplomat and decide important politic strategic treaties?
-If you move, you deny her protection and that means she will die. If you promise her shelter and she has any value for the shadows, they will kill you. And if she means anything for her family, treating her bad will bring you death also. And if she dies and has a mate there somewhere....shadows are very territorial and someone would come down here to kill someone. If
