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mixture. The powder itself is odorless, and tasteless, but it might dissolve better in something hot. Once he has this in his body, you will only need to give him more every few weeks at most.”
    “I understand,” Janik said as he reached forward and took the bag.
    “You won’t be able to force him to do anything, mind you, so do use caution while exercising the power. If you ask him to do something that wholly goes against his character, the spell will break.”
    “But it will be enough to get him to agree to marry the girl?” Janik pressed.
    Cyrus sniggered and nodded. “That and much more, my friend.”
     
    *****
     
    Kyra reached out to test the door to her father’s study. She knew he was gone. He was meeting with another nobleman downstairs in the south parlor. The cold, smooth metal did not turn in her hand as she had hoped. She frowned and let out a small sigh. Her left hand went down to retrieve her lock pick set from a pouch that she normally tucked into her pocket. Her instinct to grab it was faster than her mind was in recalling the memory that her father had taken it from her the week before after he had caught her in his study. It wasn’t that she wasn’t allowed to read books and study, but father’s library was always off-limits’s. Perhaps that was why she liked going there so much.
    Certainly she could get many books just as good as the ones in her father’s library in her own study, which was really just a small corner of her mother’s library in the east wing of the manor. Frankly, her mother had many books that were more detailed about magic and the types of spells that she liked than her father would ever be able to collect in his own library. Still, she found herself drawn not only to the myths, legends, and the secret arts spoken of in her mother’s works, but also to the myriad languages, histories, and chronicles of the peoples of Terramyr which her father had collected. That, and she liked the thrill of going to places where she knew she was not supposed to be.
    She would have made a new lock pick set had her father not also followed her back to her bedchamber and taken her metal file and the other hairpins from which she had made the first set. But that was not about to stop thirteen-year-old Kyra Caspen. If the study was locked, then she would find another way in. She turned and walked quietly over the red hardwood planks in the hallway. The next door on the left put her into a small sitting room with a large hearth and a cabinet filled with brandy. It had always seemed peculiar to her that her father’s study should ever be locked when a room filled with liquor sat unlocked nearby. She moved through the sitting room, hardly more than glancing at the brandy in the cabinet, before throwing the window open and scampering out onto the side of the manner. She didn’t need to be careful, for no one would see her here. She was on the northwest corner of the manor, and from this side she was invisible to the road that led up to the manor’s entrance. She slid her slender fingers into the grooves between the flat flagstone rock used to create the wall of the manor as she also slid her feet along.
    Slowly but surely she made her way back toward the study, but this time she would not enter through the door. She had long ago disabled the lock on the study’s window for just such an occasion as this. She liked to pride herself on being one step ahead of her father. For instance, recently when her father would tell her to go and play while he conducted official business, he had no idea that she knew the real reason for the noblemen’s visits. In two weeks she would turn fourteen years old. That was the time her betrothal would be announced.
    “That is the way of noble women in the Middle Kingdom” Kyra’s mother had said.
    “It is proper and right for a lady to be married to a nobleman,” her father had told her many times.
    Neither had asked her opinion about it one way or the
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