Part 13 (1/2)
”Sounds good, boy You get it working and I'll want some for Piast Castle”
”I' place, your grace The gas I'll have to use will contain carbon monoxide, a poison until it's burned But it should be safe enough in a factory where there's always soo out”
”Whatever you say, boy You'll be staying with me at the inn, won't you? I always rent the top floor when I'h I have a bed set up in my office”
”No, you come with me There's plenty of rooers around I have enemies and there's always the chance of a hired assassin You and your lady join me and Lady Francine for dinner after you've had a chance to clean up”
One didn't argue with the duke ”Thank you, your grace We are honored”
Cilicia and I got to the dining room before the duke and Lady Francine I was in a beautifully eiven last Christown
The duke and Lady Francine arrived in a few s and high heels, and that was all She was topless, as were the waitresses, and she was actually wearing slightly more than they were, but it was unusual and unexpected for a customer to compete with the help
Introductions werenot to stare
”I like it that way,” was his only corace Count Lambert once told me that when a vassal is on his lord's lands, he should punctiliously conform to his lord's customs Since you are ation is on me doubly Cilicia, would you please remove your dress to conform with Lady Francine's style?”
Cilicia stared at h on her, since she'd grown up a people with a nudity taboo, and while she soht to dance naked, she was not used to walking around that way But having only one of the ladies at the table bare-breasted would have been aard for all concerned, especially for Lady Francine Anyway, Cilicia had to learn our customs
”Yes, master,” she said as she stood and unlaced both sides of her dress
”Master?” the duke said ”After the battle you fought last year to clear Poland of slavery, you own a slave?”
”No, your grace It's just that she comes from a land east of the Caspian Sea, where slavery is coave' her tome 'master,' and I can't seem to break her of it”
”Cilicia, you are notme ,master'”
”Yes, master” She pulled the dress over her head folded it and set it on a stool
”Da me that!”
”You say I am free, yes?”
”Yes!”
”Then I , dammit!”
”Then I wish to call you '! How the hell do you answer that one? ”You see, your grace? What's a ets an idea into her head, a man just has to live with it Or he does if he wants to live with her, and this one looks like a keeper”
Cilicia removed her blouse and tucked up her slip so that it was as short as Lady Francine's Seeing the duke's frankly adaze, she struck a dancer's pose and waited until he'd filled his eyeballs
Everyone else in the rooh it was perfectly normal for a beautiful woer the duke was not wise
”Boy, you do seem to collect the beauties! You've near outdone ave Lady Francine's hand a squeeze
Lady Francine, who understood why I had done what I had done, quietly said, ”Thank you, Sir Conrad
Thank you for everything”
”Yes, it's a style I like,” the duke said ”I ood girl flesh I've half awenches at Piast Castle this way, just to i these two ladies side by side, I've got all of a mind to do it!”
”It looks nice on truly beautiful worace, but it's not a style that would suit every woly or too droopy, I'll just replace therace, they keep the inn here warm because of the waitresses' costumes, or rather their lack of them Your castle is pretty drafty Wouldn't it be better to wait until spring?”
”Wait? Boy, I just turned seventy I don't have tiht now Sir Frederick!
Attend ht in full arrace?”
”Ladies, stand up Take a good look at these woo back to Piast Castle and tell the castellan that I want all the serving wenches at the castle looking the sarace I shall leave immediately Butthese two ladies are the most beautiful that I have ever seen into find two hundred like them?”
”There aren't two hundred like them in the world! I didn't mean that they had to be this pretty, you ninny! I meant that they should dress this way! I want to see their tits!”
”And don't leave now It's dark out there Go back to your supper and leave first thing in the ot aith a lot, but the duke could do anything that didn't offend the majority of his e in outfits, tough Their vote wasn't taken
”Yes, your grace” The knight beat a speedy retreat
”Sit down, girls,” the duke said ”You see what I have to ith, Sir Conrad?”
”He seerace” This was as close as I dared co the duke
”Yeah, but he's stupid Men like you are rare”
”Your grace, I think that any difference between Sir Frederick and me has more to do with education than with basic ability”