Auction began at midday, just like st time. This time guard let me in, without even bothering asking any questions. I was sort of a regur by then. I had to wait a while, before gremlin finally started bidding for the first item that I was interested in. It was Helmet of the dragonlord. It looked like ordinary leather helmet, but had small decoration on its sides, that resembled dragon wings, made from golden scales. Other participants showed some interest in it, and I had to go as far as twenty three orichalcum coins, before Alexandrios decred me the winner. Two artifacts ter he brought out Eye of wolf god. Pendant that resembled wolf's head to my surprise was of less interest than helmet, and I got it for nine orichalcum coins. On second thought, it made sense, since not many people ventured into dungeon, and, without such risk, it was not so valuable to other people.

  After that I bought one more belt, that could increase wearers strength by four stats, as a present for mason for good job that he did in the castle.

  Next items were of only partial interest for me, but since Alexandrios always saved best for st, I did not participate in bidding.

  - And now my dear guests, before we get to cattle, I present you three gems of this year's auction. Every one of them more valuable and precious than the other. First, my I present you a leveling potion. Potion that can increase your level by one, no matter how high your current level is.

  I almost jumped out of my seat. I currently had three leveling potions, but I got them by pure luck, and since my success by increasing my level by killing monsters was unexisting, the dungeon cores and potions were my only possibility to climb up to hire levels. Bidding started with five orichalcum coin, and by the end I won it when bidding reached forty coins. I was getting desperate and was ready to scream and promise to level up anyone willing for tenth of the price, when Alexandrios finally decred me the winner. I was able to obtain it, only thanks to my advance payment, and my mouth was full with saliva, when I was looking at the potion.

  Alexandrios happily grinned at me and then announced second item.

  - Now my I present to you Endless bag of adamantium. It can produce endless amount of such precious metal, but I will warn you about some limitations. First, in order to get an amount of adamantium, mage must fill the bag with at least one hundred mana each day, for one hundred days. After that you will receive adamantium piece as big as adamantium coin.

  Whispers run through the auction hall. Adamantium was most precious metal, but the amount that the bag produced was very small. Also one hundred mana was a lot, and needed someone with at least level eleven, which was the level of D rank adventurer.

  Someone like me, who had sves, could afford to give bag to one of them, but even so the produced amount was very small.

  - We will star bidding at ten orichalcum coins, - decred Alexandrios.

  Bidding went slowly and with less interested than Alexandrios probably expected. Finally I acquired the bag for thirty six coins. I was willing to go as far as forty, but to my surprise the price did not go so high.

  Alexandrios looked around and grinned.

  - I see you are sparing your coins for the st item and you are right to do so. I proudly present to you a enchanted brooch, which allows you to shape shift into a dove.That was interesting, and in other time I would considered buying it, but this time I already spend too much and decided not to participate in bidding. Other people ughed, while bidding and brooch ended up with the price of thirty three orichalcum coins.- Now let us proceed with our cattle auction, - decred Alexandrios. This time he also auctioned members of rear species, some with magical talents, but there were no elves and none of the other sves caught my interest. Among them was a dragonkin, from Dark continent. According to legends, they were descendants of dragons and humans, but apart from his exotic looks, he was nothing special, and I had no interest in sves.Auction ended with me spending one hundred and eighteen coins. It was a small fortune, but I still had twenty seven orichalcum coins left and I got everything I wanted, and more than I counted on. Now, I had to expin my party members that we were hired to protect a demon and hope that they will not start a mutiny.I gathered everyone in my room and handed over the artifacts.Eumilia received a ring that protected from low level magic spells, while Trevor got Pendant that increased his magic resistance by five percent.- Also I have two more artifacts. In case we meet some powerful monsters with magic power we will need an advantage against them. I decided that our advantage will be Nelly.- Me? - jumped up the girl.

  - Yes, - I pced in front of her Helmet of the dragonlord and Eye of wolf god artifacts: - These artifacts will grant you magic resistance and also protect you from innate magic abilities. If someone like that illusion casting floor guardian will attack us again, we will count on you to deal with them.

  - But should it not be you, who keeps these artifacts.

  - No. First, you will soon reach master level Wisdom skill, long, long before me and will be able to learn level five magic spells. And also, I cannot use these artifacts, since they will not work alongside my current ones.

  At first Nelly wanted to object, but after my st words, fell silent and sighed.

  - Fine. I will do my best.

  - Good, - I nodded: - I received information that some of the monsters in dungeon can use magic, so do not forget your artifacts. Especially when we go down to deeper floors.

  - What about Ginnegith? - asked Eumilia: - Should he not as well get a protection artifact.

  - Why should I care about some dirty dark elf? - I asked. Actually I did care, but I had no more artifacts left, and it was well known fact that elves hated dark elves. So I decided to py my role.

  - What do you mean? And why do you hate him so much? - almost screamed Eumilia.

  - Calm down, - Ginnegith pced his hand on Eumilia's shoulder: - It is just how she was raised.

  - What do you mean?

  - Don't you know elven history?

  - No, - Eumilia shook her head.

  - Tell her, - I ordered. I did not know that history as well and hoped to hear at least some of it.

  Eumilia looked at her sve and Ginnegith nodded.

  - Fine. I will tell you. It started tens of thousands years ago. Back then high elves lived on high elf isnds, west of the continent. But then some of them left the isnds and traveled to the Human continent. Their magic weakened and their children were born as elves. In order to regain their eternal life span, elves were forced to kill other creatures or monsters and evolve to high elves. But such behavior was against their nature. Still among them there were those who wanted to wage wars against humans and other races, in order to evolve and receive eternal lives. War craving elves attacked their brothers and war broke out among elves. In the end elves who wanted to live in piece won. War craving elves were banished. For centuries they were homeless and almost died out. But then goddess Nyx, primordial goddess of the night, gave them her blessing and guided them to uninhabited continent.

  - Continent, - I smirked.

  Ginnegith sighed: - We call it continent, but others call it big isnd, because it is not as big as three other continents. But as followers of goddess Nyx we betrayed our former gods. After reaching our new home, dark elves changed. Nyx's blessing turned their skin dark and hair white. We became creatures, who preferred the night. We gained ability to see in dark, so we could worship our goddess during her time, but lost ability to evolve into high elves. Now we can evolve, become stronger, but infinite life span we do not posses. High elves have long memory and they remember how blood consumed elves betrayed their kind and spill the blood of their brothers. They remember, that we betrayed our gods and hate us for the choices that our ancestors made.

  - But those who participated in that war are long dead, - objected Eumilia.

  - Dark elves are dead. But among high elves there might be those who are still alive. And even after finding new homend, dark elves wanted revenge. They attacked Elven kingdom and High elf isles many times during millennia. Many more elves died during those wars. And probably many more will die in future wars.

  - But neither one of you were part of those wars.

  - But our ancestors were.

  - Enough of that, - I ordered: - Ginnegith will not receive any artifacts, and my decision will not be changed. Besides he will not need one anyway.

  - What do you mean? - asked Luara.

  - During next two month we will concentrate on Eumilia's leveling, and we will not go past floors that we already explored. After that Eumilia will not be coming with us anymore.

  - Why? - asked my surprised party members.

  - Soon ambassadors from Dark continent will arrive to renew peace treaty between our continent and Lucifer's empire. We were hired to increase Eumilia's levels, since she will be a representative of Kota during the meeting. Our contract with Ares church expires in two month time. Also, we were hired to protect ambassadors, we all will receive twenty orichalcum coins for the job. Each of us will.

  - That's a lot of money! - Nelly almost jumped out of her chair.

  - Which ambassadors are we protecting? - asked suspicious Luara.

  - Well, the ones from Dark continent.

  - What? - Trevor grabbed his sword hilt: - You want us to protect demons.

  - No, - I sighed: - But it was direct request from town lord. Almost an order. If we decline, he could make our stay her too difficult. That is also the reason why we were paid so much. Those artifacts were not cheap. Without advance payment that I spend on them, we could not afford them.

  - You already spend advance payment! - almost screamed Luara.

  - Like I said, monsters in the dungeon will be able to use spells. Without artifacts with magic resistance properties, we will not be able to conquer the dungeon. We did not had a choice. Besides the job will not take long. They come to Kota. We keep an eye on them until they sign peace treaty, again, and then they leave. Think about it this way - if someone kills ambassadors, then there will be war and hundreds of thousands people will die. Do you want that?

  Everyone felt silent, and in my mind I exhaled with relief. I was able to convince them, and no one mutinied.

  - Now get some rest, we depart for the dungeon tomorrow and will not return in almost two month time.

  I quickly exited the room, before they could accuse me off getting them involved in another dangerous adventure.

  * * *

  Two month ter we returned to Kota and my party members checked their levels. Neither one of my original party members gained a level, but, thanks to our efforts, Eumilia reached level nineteen, just as her sve Ginnegith. That was more than satisfactory result, considering Eumilia's ck of warrior or magic skills. She even got an Archery skill, which increased her battle skills to one. At least she had Abnormal condition resistance skill. According to Eumilia it was a common skill for bards. She had already seven skills, but rest of them were travel or music reted, and by then her ability to become high level adventurer was very low. So, level nineteen I considered a very good result. I congratuted Eumilia and wished her good luck in the future. I even gave her an orichalcum coin as farewell gift, and let her keep all the artifacts and dark elf.

  When we returned to the tavern, a message was waiting for us. It was an order to arrive to town lord's pace. By my calcutions we still had three days before ambassadors arrival, so lords summons took me by surprise. But I already received and spend part of the payment, so I decided to be polite and at lords service. Especially considering the amount of coins that he paid us.

  As soon as we arrived to pace, guard summoned a butler and he led us straight to the town lord. Kota lord turned out to be four arm, giant rakshasa, who towered above us from his throne.

  - So, you're our town's strongest adventurers!

  His voice reminded me a thunder. Just as loud and imposing.

  - Lord Gor, please allow me to introduce you Avone and her part members, - bowed butler, and we followed his example.

  I should probably finally chose a name for our party, I thought, just before town lord's next words.

  - Just Avone and her party members? What no loud name for your party, light Thunder giants or Death reapers?

  - Could not choose one. But thank you for suggestions, I especially like Death reapers. My I use it?

  Gor loudly ughed and cpped his hands.

  - Good. At least you are not afraid and do not kiss my feet little elf. Maybe you earned your rank after all. Your charges arrived earlier, and your jobs starts now. You will need to protect only one of the ambassadors, since she requested adventurer bodyguards. Peace treaty signing will be in six days. Make sure she survives until then and is in good enough health to sign the paper. Once she does, your job is finished. Baironhart will take you to her, - he nodded at the butler.

  Baironhart bowed his head and made a sign for us to follow.

  Ambassadors were staying in the part of the pace reserved for guests. They had their own guards, in front of the door. Guards turned out to be humans. They wore clothe and armor, which that to me associated with ancient Rome. I read that in Dark continent was a kingdom called Romanium, which was poputed by humans, whose wealth and most common trade were sves from all three continents.

  Baironhart told them who we are, and guards stepped aside and allowed us inside. Ambassadors also looked like humans and were having tea on the balcony. There were two of them, man in his forties and woman in early twenties. As soon as we saw them Nelly grabbed my hand and froze in pce.

  - What's wrong I whispered?

  - Those people, they are not humans, - she whispered back.

  - Who are they?

  - I do not know, but their true appearance is just simir. They have wings and sharp fangs and small goat like horns.

  Nelly's All seeing eye skill was at master level and allowed her to see through illusions and magic disguises. I tried to remember everything that I read about demons.

  - Is their true skin grey? - I whispered to Nelly.

  - Yes.

  Judging from her description ambassadors were incubus and succubus, lust demons. In a way that made sense. Ambassador who could seduce other side was quite useful.

  They noticed us and we entered the room.

  Baironhart bowed to them and could barely avert his eyes from the female. I could not bme him. She was gorgeous. Long bck her fall behind her thin waste, that looked even thinner under her noticeable breasts. Her long, slender legs were almost seen, under her bck silk dress.

  - These are our town strongest adventurers, honorable dy, - said butler, while looking at the floor.

  She smiled and looked at us.

  - It is nice to meet you.

  Her voice was like honey and felt musical to my ears. As a man, I would have definitely fall for her. Even now I liked her a lot.

  She looked at Trevor and extended her arm. Trevor blushed and kissed her arm. She smiled at Trevor, and he reminded me a poppy in front of his beloved master. Like our knight, Luara could not avert her eyes from male ambassador, and blushed when he looked at her. Nelly was more nervous than smitten, probably because she could see their true appearance and felt too uncomfortable in the presence of true demons. Mail ambassador noticed Luara's affection and smirked. He looked at me and grinned.

  - An elf? How rear and exotic, - he extended his arm and wanted to touch my cheek.

  I caught his arm and squeezed it a little.

  - Keep your filthy arms to yourself demon.

  Butler paled and almost fainted, but female ambassador just ughed.

  - Seems she does not to fall for you. Perhaps you are losing your touch.

  I released his arm, and demon stepped back. He massaged his arm and gred at me.

  - Are we suppose to protect you, my dy, - I looked at female: - May we talk somewhere more private then?

  - I would like that, - she nodded and smiled at Trevor again: - Follow me.

  She took us to neighboring room, that she could access from the room where we were standing. In front of the door, I noticed another door that probably led to her male companions room. Her room had rge bed, several mirrors and also marble table and several marble chairs.

  She sat on one of the chairs and nodded to another one. I sat down, and she looked at Trevor with surprise.

  - Is the knight not your leader?

  - No. My name is Avone, and I am party's leader.

  - I see. My name is Lyndria. As you know, I am an ambassador from Lucifer's empire. I asked your town lord to hire me town's strongest adventurers. Your assignment is to protect me, and only me, just to be clear.

  - I see. May I ask, why you wanted to hire adventurers?

  - Because I would like to visit your town, and as high ranking adventurers your party should be more suitable to protect me during my visit.

  I gnced at my party members. Luara looked better, but Nelly was still as nervous as before. At first I wanted to say no, but then reconsidered. As demons, ambassadors where in just as danger inside as outside, and killing wrong person inside the pace would cause more trouble than killing the same person inside town. Killing someone in town would make our expnation more believable, and also our movements would be unpredictable. I chewed my lip and considered Lyndria's request.

  - It will be too dangerous for you outside pace walls, - I objected.

  - I am sure that you will be able to protect me. Especially your knight. He looks so strong and dependable.

  She again smiled at Trevor, and he turned as red as tomato.

  - I will agree to that, but under certain conditions.

  - What are they? - she looked at me with surprise.

  I looked at my party members. Nelly was clearly a mage, no hiding that under any cloth. Luara was beast person and also too noticeable. But Trevor. Without his armor he could be an ordinary man. And as a royal knight, he learned basic etiquette rules, unlike the rest of us.

  - First, no visiting dangerous pces like slums. Second, we will change Trevor's cloth, and in public you will have to pretend that he is your male companion.

  - Why? - she raised her eyebrow, and it looked adorable.

  - Because that way no one will think that he is your bodyguard, and he will be able to stay close to you. Also, I hope, not all people know how two of ambassadors look like and in case of attack they could mistake Trevor for your companion and attack him first.

  - Are you not worried about his safety?

  - He was hired to protect you with his life.

  "Not that I could stop him at this point anyway" I thought to myself.

  - Fine. But in that case, I would like to change your pn a little.

  - How? - I asked annoyed.

  - We will dress you as my female friend as well. That way in case of attack people will not expect you to fight as well.

  I wanted to say no, but stopped. Saying no was just an instinct, but her idea was not so bad. Also, it would make me less of a target as well. Or more, depending on the view.

  - No one will believe that an elf is demon representative, - I shook my head. Her idea was not bad, but she probably underestimated elves reputation.

  - Well, some makeup, and we could turn you into evolved dark elf.

  - You want me to pretend to be a dark elf? - I asked surprised.

  - Oh, I am sorry, - she covered her mouth with her gentle and so pretty arm: - I did not wanted to insult you. I forgot, how your people despise your cousins.

  I did forget about that, but it looked to me that she wanted to show my prejudice against other races. Not that I cared about it. But such behavior would probably insult a true elf. My surprise had to do with the fact that dark elves hated demons, just as much as elves, but she probably misinterpreted my reaction.

  - Only thing that we have in common with dark elves is our hatred towards demons.

  - Yes. You are right of course. But all we need to do is hide your ears, and no one will be able to tell that you are an elf.

  - That might work. But...

  - Good, - she cpped her hands, and two girls entered the room.

  I noticed red sve colrs on their necks. Unlike bck ones that I used, red ones killed sves if they disobeyed their master.

  - We will need to change our guest cloth. Our elf and male guests will need something that a proper aristocrat would were. Use something that Zazael already used and will not were anymore. And something from my wardrobe for the dy.

  Girls nodded and one of them took Trevor to another room.

  - Wait in the corridor, - I ordered Luara and Nelly and sighed. I had a bad feeling about Lyndria's intensions.

  I turned out to be right. Two more servant girl helped me to change, and Lyndria enjoyed every moment of my transformation into noble dy. Girls dressed me in dozen dresses some of which I declined immediately, but was forced to try on by Lyndria, with her insistent reasoning that we could use it in the future. At least I said no when she tried to make me change my underwear. I was saved by the fact that my underwear was an artifact, and I refused to take it off. Lyndria sighed, but had to agree with that. But that was my only save that day.

  By the time we were finished, I felt exhausted and embarrassed by Lyndria's comments about my beauty and compliments to my body.

  When we went outside, Trevor and others were already waiting for us. I gred at them and they all swallowed any comments, that were on their tongs. Trevor was wearing pants, white shirt and a jacket, and looked like some aristocrats son, who received swordsmanship lessons from childhood. Lyndria took his hand, and he turned red again. When we went outside, we made sure that Lyndria stays between us, while Luara and Nelly followed us, like proper household guards. Trevor at least was able to keep his sword, but all I had left were my underwear and Bracelet of sanctities, that looked like jewelry anyway. All my other equipment was inside my Female purse. At least I had my purse on my belt and could access anything I needed, but I still felt vulnerable, without my artifacts and weapons.

  According to Lyndria my Female purse did not much my dress, but that was a sacrifice that my outfit had to endure. I was wearing light dress and bck jacket. My ears were covered with fancy hat, with long feather above it. My red purse stood out, but I refused to leave it behind. Besides such things were noticeable only to women, and my outfit was good enough to fool any assassins, which was our primary goal.

  - Where would you like to go? - I asked Lyndria.

  - I would like to see the Adventurer guild. That pce sounds so interesting.

  - No. No Adventurer guild or Magic Academy, these pces are off limits.

  - But why?

  - Someone will definitely recognize us, and the rumors will spread about our party, and since it was not biggest secret that we were hire to protect you, it will make our town visit too dangerous. We can visit those pces, but after that we will need to return to pace immediately, and no more visiting the town then.

  - You do remember that you were hired to serve me?

  - We were hired to protect you, not to attend to your whims, and take you to pces where you could be in danger. If it needs be I will personally make sure that you do not leave the pace.

  Lyndria pouted, and turned to Trevor.

  - Will she really do that?

  - Yes. There is no doubt about it, - he nodded.

  - You seem very sure about it?

  - Well. When we were hired to protect baron's son during his journey, she threatened to tie him up and throw into back of a cart. Also when we stayed in town called Tyco, Avone was hired to rescue a girl, who was kidnapped. When she returned with a girl she told gate guards that kidnappers used Paralysis spell on her, but ter Ni told me that it was Avone herself, who used the spell on her, to make sure that she behaves.

  Was that what my companions thought about me? Not that they were exaggerating anything. I did all those things, but Milligan was really annoying, and Ni also deserved that. I sighed, well too te to change my reputation.

  Lyndria ughed and pressed closer to Trevor.

  - Fine. No Adventurer guild or Mage guild for us. Do not want to get locked up in my room, for the rest of my mission. Let us see local temples and churches. I heard they are most beautiful buildings in town.

  We continued exploring the town, and Lyndria turned out to be cheerful like a child. At first she talked to Trevor, but he acted like teenage boy in love and could barely put two words together. And she changed her attention towards me. Not that I minded. Lyndria turned out to be easy to talk to, and I caught myself enjoying her company.

  We spend most of our time in noble district, which was a pce that I always avoided in rest of the towns.

  When Lyndria got hungry, she took us to local cafe and ordered cupcakes and cake pieces. Only time I ate those was in Magic academy and only during graduation feast. If I would have known that such pces existed, I might have visited noble district earlier.

  She also ordered mint tea, which had been served with sugar and milk, depending on persons preferences.

  - I noticed that you and your party members have different tags. Is it because you are the party's leader? - asked Lyndria.

  - No. They are different because we have different adventurer ranks. My rank is B, while my party members have C ranks. Don't adventurers in dark continent have simir ranking system.

  - Neither us, or Barbarian continent kingdoms have adventurers. We have mercenaries, they also have ranking system. As far as I know the lowest rank is F while highest is S.

  - Adventurers have the same ranks. Do mercenaries also take on jobs, like herb gathering, monster extermination and merchant protection?

  - Yes. But they also participate in wars. I heard that it is biggest difference between mercenaries and adventurers, that adventurers prefer not to participate in wars between nobles or kingdoms.

  - That's true. Sometimes we do participate in battles, but mostly we avoid such jobs and also are allowed to refuse such job offers.

  - Why did you agree to protect me?

  - For different reasons. Making sure that you sign peace treaty for Trevor. Money and possible repercussions in case of refusal from town lord, for me.

  - I see. And I thought that adventurers value their freedom and are free to chose their jobs.

  - In a way yes. You could say that we are free to leave and relocate to another town or kingdom, if something doesn't satisfy us. The loss of high ranking adventurers would limit kingdom's ability to exterminate monsters, but it is a little different, if we want to keep good retionships with local nobles.

  - I see. You do not wish to leave?

  - No. We wish to stay here.

  - And here I thought that adventurers are not welcome in this town. Or in Rakshasar as whole?

  - That's true. But I like to travel and want to see all town and kingdoms, and also races that inhabit them.

  - Does that include kingdoms of Dark continent?

  - Someday, yes. After we explore this continent.

  - Well then, maybe when you visit my home, I will show it to you.

  - That would be nice of you.

  We continued exploring the town and returned to pace, when evening was approaching. After we came back and had dinner with Zazael and his chief bodyguard, I examined Lyndria's room and shook my head.

  - What is wrong? - she asked.

  - You have a balcony. It is nice to drink tea on it, and it has excellent view, but it is too exposed. Anyone could get inside your room from it.

  - Then pce one of your adventurers below it, - she shrugged.

  - That still will make it possible to get here from above. With your permission, I will leave someone on the balcony, to make sure that no one can get inside.

  - As you wish, - she sighed: - But I do think that it is not necessary.

  - You underestimate how much people hate you. I will stay, while Luara will guard your door. Tomorrow, Trevor and Nelly will take their turn.

  - As you wish.

  * * *

  Night was worm and sky was clear. It was a night of a full moon, and I also noticed another smaller moon in its waning faze. This world had two moons, which was hard to get use to me. I was deep in thought, when door behind me opened, and Lyndria came outside.

  - Did something happened? - I asked without turning around. My enhanced sense of smell allowed me to easily recognize her perfume, just like the sound of her steps.

  - Just can't fell asleep.

  I gnced at her. Lyndria looked naked and was cowering herself with bnket.

  - What were you thinking about?

  - About you.

  Lyndria ughed: - I would have been pleased, if you would have been a man.

  - I doubt that.

  - Why? What were you thinking?

  - That you were sent, to prevent a peace treaty signing.

  - It that would have been true, then why send us at all?

  - If I would need to guess, I would say that a deal that queen Elizabeth made, forces you to come here. By the way, how many people must sign the treaty?

  - Two representatives of Dark continent and two representatives of your continent. Second representative should arrive tomorrow from Holy Griffin Empire.

  - And the first?

  - Eumilia. She is already here. She had lovely lunch with Zazael. Unlike you, she enjoyed it.

  - I see. Maybe because she is human.

  - You know her?

  - I was hired to help her to increase her level. It was easy money for us.

  - Sounds interesting. Do you receive such jobs often?

  - Other adventurers do. My party also did, three times to be precise.

  - Why were you chosen?

  - In Kota. The same reason why we were chose to protect you. Not many high or mid ranking adventurers in Rakshasar. My party was most high ranking one at the time.

  - That makes sense.

  - So why do Lucifer wants to start a war?

  She loudly ughed, and I looked at her, surprised.

  - Why are you ughing?

  - Because of you, and your people believes. Don't you know? Lucifer is a god. He is supposedly living in his own domain in heaven or hell, or some simir pce. If you believe that.

  - You do not?

  - Hard to believe in something that you have never felt or seen. Let's just say that I am open minded to that idea. But I was sent here by our emperor, not our god. Lucifer's empire is just a name of our kingdom.

  - I see. My mistake.

  - You have a lot of questions. I would like to ask you something as well.

  - What is it?

  - Zazael. All woman adore him, at least like him somewhat. But you do not. Why?

  - I am not interested in him.

  - That's hard to believe. He is pretty handsome.

  - Like I said, no interest in him. At all.

  - I do not understand, - she tilted her head.

  I looked into her eyes. They were blue, beautiful, and inviting. She was naked under the bnked and smelled so good. I stepped closer to her took her face in my palms and kissed her. When I stepped back she looked at me with surprise.

  - Ou? Ou! I see now, - she ughed again: - Would you like to come inside and talk about it?

  I shook my head.

  - Not until you sign the treaty and my job is over. I do not mix job with pleasure. At least try not to.

  - Well then. Till ter, I hope.