Camilla looked embarrassed but the expression dissolved slowly into her usual calm demeanor. Her voice remained a little strained however.

[b]"Well just make sure that you don't tell your mother that you are giving her jewelry away to Tilean women of Ill repute, what would the neighbors say,"[/b] she joked making her voice sound scandalized at the very notion. Then she laughed and felt the tension drain out of her and she threw her arms around the sober serious Imperial, he grunted in pain as she pressed against his injuries but she ignored it for the moment, the silvery sound of her laughter filling the hall.

[b]"well there, I suppose its not so hard,"[/b] she said with a grin.

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