They passed a quiver of arrows leaning against the hallway wall and there was a hand-axe lying out on the top of the dresser when they got to her room--a fairly lengthy process, since Verity couldn't stop kissing him every few feet. She tugged him over to the bed, her insides jumping around and cheering like the mice--

And then she gasped. "Oh, God, the mice!" Running back over to the door, she yelled down the hallway, "Bedroom privileges have been revoked for the remainder of the evening! I invoke the Sacred Law of Food for Privacy! Feast, on the Chinese food apart from the lo mein, and leave me alone!"


She slammed the door just in time to mute the cheering. Turning back to Liam, she asked, "So, where were we again?"