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table.
    “Yay me.  Anything to drink?”
    “Just wine, do you fancy stopping for a sip or two?” he asked.
    “We shouldn’t really, it’ll just dehydrate us more, but what the hell, lets live a little.”
    He looked around and finding a slightly larger bush, sat down in the shade, rummaging in his bucket for the bottle. Using one of Tamas’ torture implements he removed the cork, and offered it to her. After one swig, she pulled a face, sour, just like one of the wines Tenset had given her. She handed it back to Connor.
    “Do you think he’s alright?”
    Connor reached out a long arm and gave her a sideways hug.
    “I honestly don’t know, but if anyone can talk himself out of a situation it’s him.”
    She fixed him with a serious look as he took a swig from the bottle.
    “Are you jealous of him?”
    She didn’t know what answer she wanted. According to the entertainments, men in love were always jealous, if he was, it meant he was at least fond of her.  He said he’d leave the service, follow her anywhere, but he’d been almost the instigator of her passionate ‘goodbye’ to Tenset.
    It took him awhile to answer. “No, I don’t believe I am.”
    He held up a hand as the stab of disappointment had obviously showed on her face.
    “I’m not sure why I feel that way. Seeing you with Tenset, seeing how happy you were, genuinely made me happy too. But I don’t feel the same as I before, I don’t think these are only ‘friend’ feelings. I certainly wouldn’t do what we did if I didn’t feel something more than friendship for you.”
    “If I remember rightly, you didn’t a have a great deal of choice in the matter, you were shackled to that table at the time,” she grinned cheekily at him. His returning smile was brief.
    “I’m not sure why you being with Tenset doesn’t upset me, but the thought of not being with you, loving you is very disturbing.”
    She leaned in for a kiss, but he stopped her with his next question.
    “Now I’ve spilled, it’s your turn. How do you feel about me and Tenset?” Now it was her turn to look troubled as she considered her feelings.
    “Let’s get going,” she said, as a distraction. Wordlessly, Connor pushed the cork back in the bottle and helped her to her feet.
    It was several minutes before she got her thoughts together, and she was grateful that he waited patiently. His steadiness was one of the things she loved about him, they were complete opposites, and she needed him to ground her sometimes.
    “You’re my best friend Connor, I trust you more than I trust myself most of the time.”
    “I can feel a bloody big But coming.” His arm round her, showing he had no ill feelings towards her if she was going to do the ‘let’s just be friends’ speech. It just made her heart ache even more.
    She turned into his chest stopping their forward progress.
    “I’m so confused, I can’t be feeling what I do for both of you at the same time, can I? It’s not right. If I think I love both of you, does that mean I don’t feel enough for either one of you?”
    He just held her. ”Kittycat, you’re not human; so going by human morality isn’t fair. It may be that Dakarans have multiple partners, they may not experience love and jealousy in the same way humans do. The fact that I feel no jealously for you and Tenset may be a biological reaction to you. Either way, I can’t help the way I feel, any more than you do. I’m happy that he makes you happy.”
    “Tenset said I was his, I’m not so sure he’s willing to share.”
    “Tenset is an egotistical arsehole, but he knew what happened between us, and he was still happy to see you go with me, so what do you think?”
    She pulled his head down for a kiss. His hands on the side of her face stopped her.
    “You know where that’s going to lead, it’s not safe here, understand?  I think it’s best if we both ignore those sorts of feelings as much as possible for now, don’t you?”
    Nodding, she