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She found Yanez in the captain’s cabin. He’d been avoiding her since they regrouped, yet there he was, patiently waiting. His eyes unnerved her – a fox in man’s clothing, equally willing to flatter or eat you.
She waited.
“I owe you an apology, my lady,” he finally said, his voice strangled. “I was worried you were going to steal him away, and then you gave everything up to return him to us.”
Again, he offered her his hand with a flourish.
This time, she cautiously placed hers in it.
He bowed to kiss it with the reverence reserved for saints.