Beauty's Quest

  “Not everyone can boast of an encounter with a dragon,” Theo said.

  Rose nodded. “That alone should make it easy to promote you to the royal counsel.”

  His eyes gleamed appreciatively. “When you are Queen of Rhone, I will remind you of that.”

  You won’t have to remind me, Rose felt like telling him. But she only nodded again.

  Weighed silence passed between them again, as they looked at each other. Theo took a step closer to her. “Rose—”

  They were swiftly interrupted as Natala’s voice screeched out in angry tones, crying out from their camp. “Oh, my head!”

  Rose and Theo both looked back.

  “Where’s my wine?” she cried. “Why didn’t someone get me up sooner? Why aren’t the rest of you up? We’re almost there. Get up. Get up!”

  “Great,” Rose muttered. “She’s awake.”

  “And she’s moving,” Theo said, cringing as various clanks and clashes rang out in the background as Natala began scrounging around, dumping out supplies and tripping over the others.

  “Let’s just hope she doesn’t get into Sophie’s tools again,” Rose muttered. “Sophie was not happy about all the iron filings in Natala’s hands, and Mary wasn’t able to help her remove them any.”

  “I’m more worried she’ll step on Ethan’s harp again. When she stepped on it last week, I was pretty sure Ethan was going to cry.”

  “On the upside, he has been doing better at his training, since his harp needs repairs,” Rose said. “I’ve noticed you’ve been teaching him more advanced techniques lately.”

  “I’d still hate for his motivation to be compromised—or inspired—by Natala,” Theo replied. “We’d better get over there before everyone’s in a bad mood.”

  “I guess I better get Philip up.” Rose pursed her lips. “Natala is making this unpleasant.”

  Theo laughed. “We’ll make it through, Rosary,” he promised. “I said my prayers this morning.”

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