Lunari looked slightly crestfallen at the mention at the moment that Nirael mentioned he wouldn't be able to field much powerful offensive magic.  But she did chime in on the horse,<strong>"Oh, the horse, well don't worry about that.  When you've been traveling as long as I have, you get good at negotiating prices for horse flesh.  I usually trade in whatever nag I'm riding when I get to a new town, barter a price for a fresh one, and ride on.  I had rode in on this one," </strong>she pat the horse's neck she was riding,<strong>"around noon, but I had to wait for night fall before the disc would swing away from it's twin and towards you.  I'd already told the stablemaster that I might buy another horse for my trip out of town, and I just had to square a price with his son when we left.</strong><br/><br/>She nodded her head when he offered to show her a cantrip, and allowed the spell to be cast on her.  As he spoke to her, he noticed her cheeks flushing a darker purple, and he even caught a hint of her breathing a little faster.  If she adjusted in the saddle, well, maybe that was the spell or just the natural flow of the road.  Her leather armor, though supple and flexible was too thick to tell if there was any change in her nipples, a thought that made him wonder what color they might be.  Were they a deep dark purple like the color of her full lips, or were they a lighter shade, more towards a violet rose?  Her lips were parted slightly, damp as she ran her tongue across the very inside edge briefly listening to his soft speech.<br/><br/>But when he finished his words, trailing off at the end, she looked over at him and asked,<strong> "While those were some very pleasant words, and very fine indeed, I don't understand the nature of the spell.  Did it simply give you a well versed tongue, allowing you to say such... "</strong>She blushed again,<strong>"licentious things?"</strong><br/><br/>For just a moment, Nirael thought that maybe his spell had failed.  Night elves weren't known for magical resistance, and she had given him permission to cast the spell in the first place.  But then he realized what had happened.  The spell didn't work because she was already thinking wanton thoughts about him.  While it may have had some slight subconscious effect on her, she wouldn't have noticed if she was already having naughty sexual thoughts to begin with.  He realized that she had broken into his room at night, smelled the air of sex permeating the room, seen him fully naked, and through it all, tried to remain calm and calculating.  But inside, she was probably in some state of arousal.  He might not have noticed it had she not admitted that the spell had no effect on her, but now he knew it to be so for certain.