Camilla felt a little foolish. Of course Cydric didn't think of her as some sort of porcelain woman. Sighing she took his hand in her own.

[b]"I'm sorry Cydric, Its just... well I sort of am an object in a sense," [/b]she idly twisted one of her dark ringlets around her finger, uncomfortable but committed now.

[b]"That is how people saw me, an ornament just there to look beautiful. That's what they sometimes call... people like me in Tilea, an 'ornament of the court',"[/b] she explained, there were after all many euphemisms for whore that passed in polite society. It really shouldn't bother her that an air headed knight was treating her in a similar manner, though from a completely different perspective.

As Cydric moved away she smiled sadly. She very much wanted to ask him to stay but she had already ruined the moment with her earlier performance. Plus, although she didn't know exactly what Gilderoy would do when he came to check on her and found her in bed with Cydric, she was willing to bet it wouldn't be good.

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Gildenhoof gazed lustily at the castle from his vantage point high on the ridge. Although it was several miles away his vision was far better an any mortals and he could pick out men walking the parapet and smaller details beside. The woman was there, in a room in one of the towers, he had caught a glimpse of her briefly through the window. There was something about her that tugged at him commanded him to claim her for Slannesh. He wondered if she would walk the Six Fold Path herself. Perhaps he would set her feet on that road, if she survived. Two other warriors from his small warband crouched in the trees behind him, watching his back as he began to draw oddly alluring looping signals into the dirt. The working would take half the night, but if it succeeded, this wretched quest would be over and Gildenhoof would have proven himself a valuable lie tenant and a dangerous adversary.

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