RICHARD
Captain de Lyon had just finished putting forward a remarkable argument to the bar staff for the use of one of the tavern rooms for that night (an argument involving several silver pennies) and was returning to the table where he had left Mr. Thomas Kindlefyre.
At that moment, his attention was arrested by the slender, sinuous form of the gypsy he had noticed before. She was dancing. And what a dance! She glided, she floated, she twisted, she turned, she writhed in arabesques. She attracted with the grace of her body movements, nay not attracted, downright seduced. Sometimes it seemed as if she was not conscious of her surroundings, but entranced in her own mystic, hypnotic, beautiful dance. The two perky mounds stationed on her chest, which were half-bursting out of the material of her dress at her bodily exertions, added to the captain’s enchantment. The gypsy was glistening with a fine sweat now. The captain inhaled a whiff of her odour as she got down from her platform and passed by him, and he licked his lips with an excitement he could barely suppress.
Still he mastered himself with an effort. It would never do for a Pirate Lord to behave like this at the sight of a mere gypsy. Oh, what was he saying? She was no mere gypsy, she was an enchantress. A better one even than Circe, who had been one of the many women he had bedded on his travels to the corners of the world. And who was he kidding? He couldn’t stay away from her even if he tried.
He turned and strolled in her wake. She was dancing very near to his own table now, the one where Kindlefyre and now- he noted with a grin- Tus, were seated. Standing behind the dancing gypsy he watched, his blue eyes twinkling in a dark face, as Kindefyre got up to his usual tricks. He was offering a coin to the gypsy now. He wondered what the gypsy would do.
Captain de Lyon had just finished putting forward a remarkable argument to the bar staff for the use of one of the tavern rooms for that night (an argument involving several silver pennies) and was returning to the table where he had left Mr. Thomas Kindlefyre.
At that moment, his attention was arrested by the slender, sinuous form of the gypsy he had noticed before. She was dancing. And what a dance! She glided, she floated, she twisted, she turned, she writhed in arabesques. She attracted with the grace of her body movements, nay not attracted, downright seduced. Sometimes it seemed as if she was not conscious of her surroundings, but entranced in her own mystic, hypnotic, beautiful dance. The two perky mounds stationed on her chest, which were half-bursting out of the material of her dress at her bodily exertions, added to the captain’s enchantment. The gypsy was glistening with a fine sweat now. The captain inhaled a whiff of her odour as she got down from her platform and passed by him, and he licked his lips with an excitement he could barely suppress.
Still he mastered himself with an effort. It would never do for a Pirate Lord to behave like this at the sight of a mere gypsy. Oh, what was he saying? She was no mere gypsy, she was an enchantress. A better one even than Circe, who had been one of the many women he had bedded on his travels to the corners of the world. And who was he kidding? He couldn’t stay away from her even if he tried.
He turned and strolled in her wake. She was dancing very near to his own table now, the one where Kindlefyre and now- he noted with a grin- Tus, were seated. Standing behind the dancing gypsy he watched, his blue eyes twinkling in a dark face, as Kindefyre got up to his usual tricks. He was offering a coin to the gypsy now. He wondered what the gypsy would do.