Silent, Thongor watched Karm Karvus talking to the girl. The slim, courtly noble and the lovely Princess could converse as equals -- but he was a rude barbarian! Broodingly, he observed her slender loveliness…the great, curling fleece of black hair, slim, pale limbs displayed in the creamy glimpses through the rents of her tattered gown. Never in all his years had he seen such loveliness in a woman.
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