CHAPTER 25
George entered a pleasant room filled with morning sunlight. Llefelys was seated at one end of a long table, with his wife at his right hand. They were about to start their meal.
Morien had walked ahead to prepare introductions. Rhian was waiting for them near the entrance, where the light from a window fell upon her, and George stopped, pulled to a halt by Cernunnos. He altered into the horned man abruptly, startling the kitten which clung to his shoulder gamely as his form changed, and then sank on one knee before her. She flushed and smiled at him uncertainly but stood her ground.
“My lady,” he said, in the horned man’s deep voice, “We well recall what debt we owe you. We will repay it.”
She nodded shakily, and he rose and pulled the form back in. After he was sure the in
