Rose let her fingers and lips speak for her for a little while. She nibbled on his ear as she slipped her hand underneath his robes until she found his manhood. Straddling his thigh, she drew herself up against him as she cupped his balls.<strong>"Yes, I believe I can teach you something about appreciation of beauty,"</strong>she purred-<br/><br/>Without warning her fingers closed around Aberiks's jewels in a vice-like grip. Sure that she had his undivided attention she continued in the same husky drawl as before,<strong>"And the first lesson is, you have to be alive to appreciate beauty. You go and find the journal and bring it back to Lady Kara like a good boy, and she will tell the mystery man of Aganem to give you your reward. Eight thousand gold, I believe? Perhaps some spare change as a tip or bonus as well? But you just might find out the hard way that he has kindly packaged your payment in an easy-to-carry form, say a flaming sword, and to prove his friendship he will even demonstrate its keen edge on the nearest dummy, like you and your neck."</strong><br/><br/>She planted a kiss on his cheek before she let go of him and stood straight again.<strong>"Now, I am going to use what fraction of an hour we have left to try to learn whether we are going after something worth killing all of us for or merely a diary of bad love poems, and if I were you, I would do the same as well."</strong>