She smiles softly.<br/><br/>"Very well, then.  I shall stay the night.  Though, we will of course need genuinely to rest.  Tomorrow, I fear, will be a long day."<br/><br/>She shivered slightly at his touch, but put such things aside.  She sat on the floor, cross-legged, closing her eyes and beginning to murmur softly as she sought connection with Edves, her God.  It didn't take very long apparently as she soon achieved a look of peace, disconnected from the world around her.  Her murmurings took on more form, as she began to repeat certain formulae, saying the appropriate praises and making the requests she had of Him.<br/><br/>She could feel the divine power affirmed and renewed within her, feeling the familiar lightness and brief sensation of soaring far above the world.  Then as usual the sudden reassertion of the world, the dropping of the intensity of divine energy, though realization that Edves was always very near to her, indeed to the entire world.<br/><br/>She took a deep breath and stood slowly, taking up her glass of wine and finishing it.<br/><br/>She sat on the edge of the bed, a slight blush and awkward expression overtaking her as she did so.