<strong>Cecily</strong><br/><br/>Roarke’s mention of spoon preparedness earned him a quick grin from Cecily. Life as Pure had never been this simple, she realized, not in her father’s court. But here friendships and lovers were easy, warm, and involved ice cream. For those few moments life couldn’t get any better. The press of Dawn’s lips to her cheek reminded her of that.<br/><br/>She stashed the guilt about lying to her best friend, the guilt from not being there for Dawn when she should have been, and just enjoyed the company of the others. For a few moments, Cecily could just be … nothing more, nothing less, just be.<br/><br/>The easy companionship Dawn had with these men eased some of Cecily’s fears, some of her guilt. It was easy to float along, basking in the glow of really good sex, and watch the others interact. She should have felt out of place, but she didn’t. Dawn would have had none of that sort of thinking anyway. Here, right now, she felt content. Contentment had been hard to come by, in her first life and in the second. She’d only found it alone with the animals, until now.<br/><br/><em>"What's the price for yielding the spoons oh Harper?"<br/><br/>"A kiss, from your lips and then hers."</em><br/><br/>Cecily returned Dawn’s smile and shrugged her shoulders. For ice cream, a kiss seemed fair game. It might be worse if she were surrounded by trolls, but she wasn’t, the three others were beautiful. Were she anything but Pure, she’d have felt self conscious nude in front of such displays of gloriousness. She snorted, out loud, before shaking her head. She’d been away from her own kind for far too long.<br/><br/><em>"I think I got rather more out of that deal.."</em><br/><br/>Their kiss had left Cecily’s body warming and it didn’t seem so much like payment. The corners of her mouth quirked up and she winked at Roarke.<br/><br/>“My spoon is being held for ransom.”<br/><br/>Shrugging again, Cecily chuckled, and leaned forward towards Gwydion in almost a mirror image of the way Dawn had.<br/><br/>“If I whimper like she did, I should get two spoons.”