palace a deputation of the more phone sex chat stable leaders of the rebellious north, and
her summons phone sex chat had appeared over a title she rarely used, Duchess of Asturia.
At her instruction, the Asturians were even now drawing up a
list of their
grievances for her consideration.
Later on that phone sex chat phone sex chat same sunny afternoon, Mayaserana sat alone on the double
throne of Arendia, painfully aware of phone sex chat the vacancy beside her. The leader
and spokesman of the group phone sex chat of Asturian noblemen phone sex chat was a Count Reldegen, a
tall, phone sex chat thin man with iron gray hair and beard, who walked with the aid of a
stout cane. Reldegen phone sex chat wore a rich green doublet phone sex chat and black hose, and, like
the rest of the deputation, his phone sex chat sword was belted at his side. The fact that
the phone sex chat Asturians came armed into the queen's presence had stirred some angry
muttering, but Mayaserana had refused to listen to urgings that their
weapons be taken from them.
"My phone sex chat Lord Reldegen," the queen greeted phone sex chat the Asturian as he limped toward the
throne.
&
quot;Your Grace," he replied with a bow.
"Your Majesty, " a Mimbrate courtier corrected him in a shocked voice.
"Her Grace summoned us as phone sex chat the Duchess of Asturia," phone sex chat Reldegen informed the
courtier coolly. "That title commands more respect from us than other,
more
recent embellishments."
"Gentlemen, please," the queen said firmly. "Prithee, let us not commence
hostilities anew. Our purpose here is to examine the possibilities of
peace. I entreat thee, my Lord Reldegen, speak to the purpose. Unburden
thyself of the causes of that rancor which phone sex chat hath so hardened the heart of
phone sex chat Asturia. Speak freely, my Lord, and with no phone sex chat fear of reprisal for thy
words." She looked quite sternly at her advisers. "It is our command that
no man be taken to task for what is spoken here."
phone sex chat The Mimbrates glowered at the Asturians, and the phone sex chat Asturians scowled back.
"Your Grace," Reldegen began, &phone sex chat quot;our chief complaint lies, I think, in the
simple fact that our Mimbrate overlords phone sex chat refuse to recognize our titles. A
title's an empty thing, really, but it implies a responsibility which has
been denied to us. Most of us here are indifferent to the privileges of
rank, but we keenly feel the phone sex chat frustration of being refused the chance to
discharge our phone sex chat obligations. Our most talented men are compelled to waste
their lives in idleness, and might I point out, your Grace, that the loss
of that talent injures Arendia