<strong>My dearest Rosalyn,"</strong>Tehr said with a chuckle,<strong> "I doubt you could be a songbird trapped in any cage, gilded or not.  Nor do I think that even if someone were to ensnare your delicate wings and bind you, would they find your song half as sweet.  You my beauty are not a rare jewel nor a bird, but a rainbow, a sweeping vista.  Your beauty could not be tamed or captured, but only appreciated when experienced.  I count myself lucky to have simply witnessed it.  If you decide at any point in the future to bestow upon me your beauty, ill take it as a small miracle and enjoy whatever pleasure I can."</strong><br/><br/>He smiled and sipped his tea,<strong>"But yes, we shall see what tomorrow and tomorrow brings, and I shall hold hope in my heart knowing that at the least we remain friends, with the hints of a potential for more."</strong><br/><br/><br/><hr/><em>(later)</em><br/><br/>Tehr looked up as the light knock interrupted his study.  Alex was working across from the workshop delicately laying out very specific lines in quartz dust on the enchanting table, preparing yet another cleaning trinket.  The business had been a slow but steady income generation as the women of Londinium slowly spread word of the miraculous device.  Alex, in his most common male guise looked up, and stretched as Tehr called out for the knocker to enter the attic workshop.<br/><br/>The redheaded maid's smile was broad as she poked one nose in,<strong> "Pardon Lord Tehr, Master Alex, but dinner will be served in ten in the dining room and Lady Christina sent me to remind you.  She was afraid the two of you would be too engrossed in your work to remember to stop and eat."</strong><br/><br/><strong>"Thank you Sarah,"</strong>Tehr said to the diminutive maid as he stood and stretched.  Then after the door closed he looked at Alex, feminine looking even in his male disguise and nodded,<strong>"Shall we then my young apprentice?"</strong><br/><br/><strong>"Indeed old man,</strong>" Alex said with a smirk, an inside joke since the two were no more than a few years apart in age.  The pair made their way down to the dining room, ready to socialize with the house and see what new developments may have happened during the day.