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closure to her pressure suit. When he pulled back, she licked her lips.
    Jherin’s eyes narrowed as she closed her mouth.
    She swallowed as her mouth watered. He tasted the same way he smelled, like every happy memory in her life would come back to her if she just kissed him long enough.
    Kee cleared her throat and tried not to look as dazed as she felt. “I think you need to put something on?”
    His hand stroked the straggling hair on her cheek. “Why?”
    “Because I just met you, and despite the fact that you have been humming in my brain for a week, I consider you a stranger.”
    His sigh moved the hair on her forehead. “I appreciate your modesty, though I really wish it wasn’t so definite in your thoughts.”
    That was unnerving. “Can you read all of my thoughts?”
    “Just your emotional state. You are putting up barriers to your arousal right now. It would be rude of me to insist on breaking through when—as you said—we have only just met in person.”
    He got to his feet, and his wings closed around him, hiding the ridged musculature of his torso from her interested gaze.
    He left the room he had deposited her in, and when he returned, he was wearing a short wrap around his hips that covered the essential bits…barely.
    Kee had seen them after all and knew that there was not a lot of fabric between her and the interesting areas.
    “I am rather surprised that you are not staring at my wings.”
    Kee got to her feet and opened her pressure suit, easing it off her hips and kicking it away. Her archivist suit of brown and gold was snug on her body and it just felt good to get out of the suit that almost killed her.
    “You are a Drai; your wings are part of you. I haven’t had a chance to really embrace what is going on right now, so I am sure that once I do, I will be properly curious.”
    He grinned. “Would you like to come and see the progress of my home?”
    Jherin extended his hand and wiggled his fingers.
    Kyna slipped her fingers into his, and he carefully closed his grip. He escorted her through the doorway and into a wide bedroom before walking with her onto the balcony adjacent to the enormous bed.
    She ignored the bed and walked to the waist-high railing, looking out over the blue sands. “Have the sands always been blue?”
    “When I first arrived here, I ground the granite to make the sands. This is my home, my territory, and I wanted to mark it as mine no matter which species come in to live on Jhenno. The world is registered as mine, but I have opened it for colonization when I was awakened by my mate.”
    Kee looked at him sideways, “So, the people who are here?”
    “Place holders and curators of the archive. It took me centuries to bring it together, and I needed someone to keep track of it for me. I brought in the Eurgal, and they took on the name Jhenno.”
    She was stunned by the first part of his statement. “ You assembled the archive?”
    He smiled. “That was my calling. I accumulate knowledge but am not skilled at using what I find. I also built the current Alliance archive.”
    “Dragon horde.”
    “What?”
    “My people have tales of dragons capturing and hording riches. Ancient tales of dragons sitting on gold and jewels under castles.” She waved her hands at the structure rising from the sands. “Apparently, the tales are true.”
    He stared at her. “Do you know many of these stories?”
    She grinned. “Quite a few.”
    “Can you write them for me?” He was looking at her, and there was an acquisitive look in his eyes.
    “My handwriting is rather poor and I can only write in one of the languages of my people. I have not had time to learn to write in Common yet. Some of the words don’t really translate.”
    “Would you tell them to me? It sounds like my people visited yours at one time.”
    “I think that would be likely. From the little bit I have been able to learn, many of the species have dipped their toes in Terran waters.”
    “Really?” He