Temptress by Temptress

temptress

Wed Feb 28 00:29:52 2001 GMT

I felt excitement rush through me, not one entertaining
companion but two. I approached the handsome, almost pretty
knight and curtsied low. AncientChild was busy with the
masked man behind me, I heard them leave. I grabbed the
knight’s wrist when his touch became to familiar, laughed
and chided him. I told him others might see us here.

He agreed to come with me. I brought him in an instant to
the room where I knew AncientChild would be waiting. He
wanted to play and I did too. Before long I found he didn’t
want to play by the rules. It saddened me a tremendous
amount. I was so looking forward to getting to know him.
But AncientChild doesn’t put up with nonsense and soon my
knight was gone.

Then the doubts came and I apologized to my sister. She
embraced me and let me know with a gentle kiss to my
forehead that she wasn’t mad at me. Much later after a
superb meal, my sister brought up that I must tell our Lord
what happened. This was enough to set fear flowing through
me. I swallowed hard and nodded, she knew I was scared and
again she comforted me.

Then she distracted me with talk of the upcoming
masquerade. It worked, I began to grow excited at the
thought of the throng of gaily costumed people and music
filling the ballroom, courtly dances and the divine cuisine.

Private thoughts of Temptress

~By light or by night, Life is a Masquerade