<div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/99/de/80/99de80dd4fb18a5a2b5229f5fe73ae72.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: impact;">Twin Oxenbridge</span></strong></span><br/>Human Wizard X<br/><hr/><br/><strong>Kathadon</strong>, Faru spent a long moment staring into the soul of the man with the crooked nose.  Your attention was diverted when the archer walked past you and towards an empty table, which Tamaa found, as at this hour, the tap room was lively, but never full.  Faru sensed that the man with the crooked nose reeked of liquor, and that he was clutching a dagger perhaps underneath his linen frock.  He was afeared, perhaps, by the presence of the wizard, and having run afoul of one of his guests.<br/><br/>As for Twin, he sat there and listened to Asherah, again with that impassive face.  He did not seem intimidated or cowed by Asherah's force of character, though so many in the room were.<br/><br/>"Stupid girl," the wizard said darkly.   "A fool, just like your father.<strong>You are not the queen here.</strong><span class="bbc_u"><strong>You are not the queen anywhere.</strong></span><span class="bbc_u"><em><strong>And you cannot command me.</strong></em></span>"<br/><br/>The wizard rose to his feet, menace and fury burning in his eyes.  The tap room went still, and he walked back and forth in a haughty rage.<br/><br/>Why couldn't he just grab her by the throat, cast aside her clothes, and fill her belly with his semen by force?  Why wouldn't he just enslave her and keep her as a sow meant for breeding his offspring?  He asked himself that every day. He could have kidnapped her in her father's court.  Nothing would have stopped him.  He could have taken her when she was at her most desperate.  Even now, he could spirit her away and secret her in one of the thousands of lairs on this accursed island.<br/><br/>But he didn't.<br/><br/>He sat, almost defeated in his throne within that tap room, becoming morose at the notion that this foolish mortal would never come around to loving him.<br/><br/>"So be it," he said.   "We shall not talk about it again until you decide it is time."