Where the Walls Don't Have Ears ~ by SaralynArati

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"What about her mother?" asks Smoke Cat suddenly. "No one here knows that she's NOT a powerful magician..." "And," Summer Wind continues, "maybe she's come for a surprise visit. Then you wouldn't need to have any compunctions about leaving Shooting Star by herself." "My mother's health isn't up to going to parties, so I'd always be home and within call of one of my sisters-in-law, who actually ARE powerful magicians... in case my "faithful swain" is bothering you," Estel tells Silver Fox.

10 years ago

SaralynArati

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Still, Silver Fox is more or less in harmony with his wife and sisters by the time he enters his home. They have been very brave, very clever, and, he points out to them, very lucky! "One thing, though. If I am in enough fear for my life to want to keep my wife safe by staying away from her, it isn't likely that I'd leave her all alone, either. We need some form of bodyguard; I would suggest one of you two, he tells his sisters, except that you are supposed to have left the country by now."

10 years ago

SaralynArati

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"Why would I want to go to parties without my lovely wife?" he asks somewhat wryly. "All right, then, get together a hunting party, or something, and set it about that you fear that whoever framed you will be so infuriated by your release, that he may try to take your life. And, for my protection, you want to stay far from me until this malefactor is caught and punished," Estel suggests. "You've really thought this all out," Silver Fox can't help but approve. "I still have to consider it."

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SaralynArati

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However, he is much less than pleased with the reasoning behind his wife and sisters continuing with this hazardous charade. Unfortunately, it is sound. If the "Sword of Justice" only comes out of retirement long enough to get Silver Fox released, it looks too incriminating, and that defeats the whole exercise. "Why can't you and I take turns, at least, being the Sword of Justice?" he asks, not wanting to be relegated to the role of merely a decoy in this operation. "You have to be seen!"

10 years ago

SaralynArati

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There Estel explains to him how the three women managed to counterfeit one Sword of Justice, and that they planned for every possible contingency, so there was really relatively little risk. Silver Fox frowns at this, but allows his wife to continue with her description of events. He is definitely unhappy to learn about her "faithful swain", and hopes now that he is back by her side, the letters to the "dusky goddess of the sea" will cease. In truth, he is caught between ire and admiration.

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