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It didn’t have to be, of course, but she remembered the way his hands had dropped instinctively toward his belt when she had cried out in surprise. Cuthbert looked up. Rimer did his best to beam, but looked unused to it. And he had rarely worked harder.

Yet he did not think he really believed that. An inarguability. ”Depape barked laughter at that. The starlight rained down on them as it has on young men and women since time’s first hour, and once she