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She agreed that she wouldn’t much be able to sleep next to the frozen spring, but he hadn’t expected her to ask where he thought she should make her sleeping spot. ”Um, well.” He sat back on his haunches, unsure since he didn’t really know the den well at all yet. Wherever she slept he felt like he needed to be next to her. ”I don’t believe that decision is for me to make, but when you decide I would like to lay nearby.” Saying that he wanted to be beside her seemed like crossing a boundary.

”Of course, your grace. It would be my pleasure.” Gathering herbs would be a breeze of a task compared to what he might have been forced to endure if he had been placed into the hands of a more cruel master. Lucretia was sweet, and didn’t seem like she would need to demand much from him. ”I’ll follow your lead.”