"Perhaps we did meet, but I don't think either of us would recall if we did" Larek replied.

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Orna thought about it. "Your sense of hard work, responsibility, honesty, and that you could be depended on to do good by the female you loved. Oh, and while you may not be a dragon-wrangler, you still have quite an impressive physique. That helped too."

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"I feel the same way. Used to be that I cared only for my music and my family, Larek and the others. Now with you, I can't imagine living with anyone else" Veax explained.

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"Yeah" Kos looked at the egg, peering at the shell. "Suppose that's a son in there, or a daughter?"