The house was silent and only a few light were lit in the main hall and the kitchen. The rooms were always lit encase someone needed a late night snack or for the house to appear to be inhabited. Ann was the first one up and the last to go to bed. Ann went to be shortly after supper.<br/><br/>Lyons, unknown to Kate, kept a concubine or two after battle. He would take a young woman with experience usually in her late 20's and early 30's to his suite. The lord would enjoy her  for a few days and return to the mages. His lordship kept many things private to himself.<br/><br/>It was late and the woman was in the kitchen having tea and roast sandwich. She was human with olive skin that smell of cocoa nut and and deep blue eyes. She wore a full length, black lace, night gown with matching robe. Her waist long black hair was pulled back with a copper comb. Alxy would have smelled her sex, knowing she had just mated.