Chapter 9For the next twenty-four hours, Shae kept Tuor company. Bless pottered about, got food for them, or lost himself in a holographic world, while Shae and Tuor talked for hours about their childhoods and families, their likes and dislikes, their hopes and dreams.
To Shae’s delight, they shared a similar taste in music and literature, although Shae had been a little surprised to find Tuor liked opera; he’d immediately thought of a couple he’d like to see. They even shared a similar sense of humour. If he was honest, Shae felt they were squeezing several weeks of courtship into just a single day And Shae was sure he was falling in love with the man behind the miner’s persona. The initial attraction they’d shared deepened and strengthened. Now their talk revolved around things they wou
