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“I…I think that for a minute while I was touching him—healing him—I felt what Krynn was feeling,” I confessed. “I felt his emotions. At least, I think I did.”
“You felt my feelings?” Krynn turned to me, his eyes wide. “But you’re not a Sin Eater—are you, my Lady?”
I shook my head.
“I’ve never had anything like that happen to me before. I mean, I’ve never felt anyone else’s feelings.”
“It must be because she tasted your blood when she healed you,” Sel said, speaking to Krynn. “It’s the Blood Magic working again—the same way she was able to absorb some of my Power over lightning, she absorbed some of your Sin Eater traits. What did you feel?” he asked me.
I stood up from the lip of the marble tub and cleared my throat, wanting to buy some time. I wasn’t sure if I ought to explain or not. The desperate longing Krynn had felt when Sel talked about fucking him, was that because Krynn really wanted his best friend sexually? Or was it because he just needed to be fucked? If he was secretly in love with Sel, I didn’t want to expose him. It might make things awkward between them.
“Just…a deep sexual need,” I said at last. “A longing to be…er, filled.”
“That’s the Needing,” Krynn said, nodding. “The longing to be fucked and subjugated to the will of another. It never completely leaves me,” he added with a sigh.
“Does it matter who, er, does the actual fucking or subjugation?” I asked.
He shook his head.
“No, not really. Though I’d rather not have to take it from Lady Elgiana because she’s cruel about it. She likes to laugh at me and tell me how easy it was to infect me as she dominates me,” he added in a low voice.
“She makes him feel like he wanted the Needing.” Sel’s face was like a thundercloud. “But nobody fucking wants to need to be humiliated and fucked and hurt!”
“Some humans do,” I said, remembering the spicy romance books I’d read about the BDSM Lifestyle. I explained it briefly to Sel and Krynn. “It’s called a ‘kink,’” I told them. “Wanting to be dominated doesn’t make you sick or wrong—it just makes you submissive.”
Seldarin frowned.
“I don’t know—it sounds to me like a lot of those humans are just infected with the Needing.”
I shrugged.
“I don’t really know—I was never in the Lifestyle myself. Though I enjoyed reading books about it,” I added.
“That must be why you’re not disgusted by me.” Krynn’s eyes were filled with emotion. On impulse, I reached out to touch his hand and felt his feelings flowing through me. He was filled with gratitude towards me as well as deep caring and devotion. I was his Princess—his Queen—and he would give his life for me if necessary.
“Oh, Krynn…” I whispered, shaken by the depths of his emotion. “Do you really feel all that for me?”
“My Lady…” He sank to his knees before me and took my hand. Turning it over, he laid a gentle kiss on my palm. “I feel everything for you,” he murmured.
I ran my fingers through his long silver and blond hair. He was so beautiful…and so broken. I could feel the terrible pain that disgusting bitch, Lady Elgiana had inflicted on him. It hadn’t made him bitter or hateful but the Needing was like a wound inside him—one I sensed I wouldn’t be able to heal, even with my newfound powers—whatever they actually were.
“You can stand up, Krynn,” I told him. “I understand—and I love you too. I love both of you,” I added, reaching for Seldarin, who’d been standing to one side watching us with uncertainty in his eyes.
“Princess…” he murmured, coming forward. As Krynn rose, Sel put his arms around us both and then I found myself in the middle of them, embraced by two sets of arms as well as two sets of emotions.
Sel’s feelings for me were just as deep as Krynn’s—but fiercer. He felt strongly protective of me and wary of anyone else who might come near me. Only Krynn did he trust completely. Other than him, Sel wanted to put himself between me and the whole world—to be my shield against any and all danger that might threaten me.
“Oh, Sel,” I murmured, looking up at him. Because of our height difference, I felt like a kid being hugged by two adults.
“Love you, Princess,” he rumbled, looking down. “And I swear by Lolth I’ll do all in my power to keep you safe.”
“I know you will,” I told him. “But you don’t have to worry about me.”
“Yes, I do!” he insisted. “We’re coming to a difficult time—tomorrow is the Autumn Equinox. You’ll officially come of age and be crowned…if Krynn and I can keep you alive and safe from Mordren,” he added grimly.
“You really think he’d try to kill me? I mean, I know he tried once before when you first found me, but now that everyone knows I’m the Lost Princess?—”
“I don’t know if Mordren will try to kill you, but he will seek to control or discredit you if he can,” Krynn said. “We need to plan for that—to think one step ahead of the Lord Regent.”
