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  1. Julia Golding _ Dragonfly

    The Fourth Crown Princess of the blue Cresent Islands had sixteen rituals to observe from the moment of waking to when she broke her fast.
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  2. Julia Golding _ Dragonfly

    Melletin jumped up on a barrel beside Ramil. "Brigardians, are you with the Dark Prince?""Aye!" shouted his countrymen."What about you other men?" Ramil asked, looking across the crowd of faces drawn from all parts of the Empire.The slave who had challenged him took one look at Yelena, then raised his hand. "I'm in. It seems you might know what you're doing after all."Ramil grinned. "I can't promise that--but I can promise that I'll buy you a drink if we're still alive by the end of tomorrow!
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    He looked for his tankard, then remembered he'd thrown it away. "Marl! Bring me more beer!" The serving man appeared in the doorway, fumbling with his apron. "I'm sorry, Your Highness, but His Majesty says you're to be sober for this evening. He asks your lordships to take the Prince to the royal baths and scrub some sense into him." Yendral stood up. "Consider it done. Come on, let's get this pitiful prince of ours fit for his princess." "Roll me in the mud. That's what Her Highness is used to," shouted Ramil as they dragged him down the corridor."To market, my sweet, to buy us a pig,home to our farm to make it grow big," he warbled. "Can't you shut him up, Yendral?" implored Usk. "What if the Crescent people hear him?" Lord Yendral took out a handkerchief and stuffed it in the royal mouth.
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  4. Julia Golding _ Dragonfly

    Tashi, look at me.""I am.""But I can't see you through that veil.""Then you'll just have to trust me."Ramil smiled. "I wanted to give you the flower just as a boy would give a girl a present--not because you are a princess, or an ally, or for any of those reasons. It came with no conditions, no schemes, except perhaps the hope that you might like me just a little better.""Then I accept it and thank you." Tashi felt a burst of happiness. She'd got it al wrong: he did like her."So what's next?" asked Ramil, feeling very pleased with himself."How do you mean?""What should a boy do now?""On the Islands, you'd write a poem in praise of my eyebrow," Tashi said teasingly. "Around here, you'd kiss me." She spurred her pony forward, leaving him wondering.
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  5. Julia Golding _ Dragonfly

    Where did you say you were from, girl?" Uniloma asked gruffly one morning. The vessel was far out to sea, giving a wide berth to the coastline of western Holt and any bold pirate vessel. "From Kai." "And your name?" "Taoshira." Tashi did not risk giving her title again but neither was she going to lie. Uniloma clucked in irritation. "My family and friends call me Tashi." "I'll call you Tashi then. I'm not using a princess's name for you." Tashi sighed. There was no point arguing. The truth would come out when they returned to Rama. It would only be an unseemly squabble if she pressed her claim here. That's if anyone recognizes me, Tashi thought glumly. I'm not sure I'd knowme either. I might have to stand naked before my servants to prove my point. She smiled at the idea. No, I'm definitely not the same person if I can laugh about that.
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  6. Julia Golding _ Dragonfly

    I take it, Professor, this is not only a social visit?" he asked, his voice almost normal."No, of course not. I've come to ask why on earth you haven't called on me before now?"Ramil took a step back. "Er . . . well, we've been a bit busy, Professor.""I can see that for myself. I had a terrible job getting here: they've ringed you off with troops five men deep. I had to crawl through the tunnels and some of them are in a disgusting state." Norling sniffed his robe with a doubtful look."But why you did not think to ask the resistance for aid is beyond me. We can be immensely helpful to you."Ramil struck his forehead with the palm of his hand. "Stupid! I should have been drowned at birth," he muttered."Oh, I wouldn't go that far," said Norling generously. "I don't think it's too late. In fact, I'd say that you've managed very well without me.
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  7. Julia Golding _ Dragonfly

    What do you want to know, my pretty?" Gordoc asked, his expression one of puzzlement. "Do you want me to scare Merl off--thump him for you? Just tell him your Uncle Gordoc will have words with him if he offends you.""No, no, I don't mean that." Tashi smiled. "He's not insulted me--at least, not by Eastern standards, I suppose." She wrinkled her nose."What's he done?" growled Ramil."Well, first there's the gifts--flowers and jewelry, mainly. What should I say when he gives me things?""Thank you' usually does the trick," said Gordoc
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  8. Julia Golding _ Dragonfly

    Ram, can't you see it doesn't matter anymore what I do, but you, you're still needed at home. You go. If my people are still there, tell them the truth. Let them rejoice that Fergox took me away before I could do any more damage to my country.""No, I refuse that mission, Princess. See, you are still ordering me around like a ruler--it's in you, it's what you are meant to be, no matter what others are telling you. I've given my word that I'll only escape with you by my side. So forget about yourself for a moment: if you care anything about me, about the fate of my country and yours, you are coming with me or I don't go.""But, Ram--""You've got my little horse still?"She nodded."I believe that in the Islands it is understood that when you accepted it, you took responsibility for my soul. I'm holding you to that, Tashi.
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  9. Julia Golding _ Dragonfly

    Call me Ram. It's what my friends all call me.""In that case, I'm Tashi." She paused. "But that's not what my friends call me back home.""What do they call you?""The Princess Taoshira, Fourth Crown Princess of the Blue Crescent Islands and dependent territories. We're very formal, you know."Ramil smiled. "I've noticed. And I also think, Princess Taoshira of the rest of it, that you are making a joke."Tashi nodded, her face wrinkling into an answering smile. "But you can call me Tashi.
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  10. Julia Golding _ Dragonfly

    Send out the whisper," Ramil told Melletin, "starting with all Brigardians in the pens. Tell them the Dark Prince who escaped Fergox has come to lead them--""But you're in the cage with them," Melletin pointed out.Ramil shrugged. "They don't need to know that. Keep it vague and majestic.
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  11. Julia Golding _ Dragonfly

    Tashi, you know I love you, don't you?" he said sofly in her ear.She smiled: trust the son of a Horse Follower to woo in the saddle."I thought we were already betrothed.""You broke it off, remember." He kissed the top of her head."Oh yes, I suppose I did. I'm sorry about that.""I didn't deserve you. I don't deserve you now.""Well, as long as you know that." She turned and gave him a mischievous smile.
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  12. Julia Golding _ Dragonfly

    We'll stick close together, but make no sign we are acquainted. The girls should go ahead so that they get through first. We'll follow close behind to be there for any trouble.""Don't worry, my dears," said the professor gallantly, "I'll rescue you from any difficulties."Yelena laughed and kissed the old man on the cheek. "Of course you will. I don't know why we bother with these other men, do you, Tashi?""But they are decorative, aren't they?" the Princess replied archly. It was fun to have a girl with whom she could gang up against the boys--she'd never had a friend like that before. "They give us something to look at on the boring stretches of the road." She let her eyes linger on Ramil, who appeared very warm all of a sudden.Yelena swung herself into the saddle. "My, my, Princess, I didn't know you could flirt.""I'm learning from a master--or should I say mistress--of that art," Tashi said with a bow.
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