<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ff99">Cameron let out a bark of laughter that had no humor in it.  "Princess, I stopped only long enough to change clothes -- to don the black that our loss deserves.  I have not so much as poured a glass of water since I set foot in the castle."  He shook his head.  "None of it mattered but getting to you."<br/>
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Then his expression turned almost haughty.  "As for your ladies in waiting -- if they refer to you as a statue in my presence, I shall see to it that they are reeducated in the manner to which a Queen is to be treated."</span></span>