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Slowly, giving him plenty of time to change his mind she cupped his face in her hand. His skin was warm and smooth. She bent until their foreheads were pressed together. "That's okay. I'll teach you."

She could sink into those eyes, wide and doe-like, a deep cavern that she wasn't sure she'd ever escape. Closing her eyes, she leaned closer placing her other arm around his shoulders to draw them together.

She started gently, simply pressing their lips together in a soft caresses of warm pine-scented breath and tingling lips. She carefully took note of Ceral's reactions, the tension in his body, his breathing, the throb of his pulse. After a few seconds of chaste touches, Ivy gently pulled his body lip between hers. She liked the taste of him, the warm essence that was purely Ceral coated with a thin salty taste and the left over copper tang of gator blood.

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Ivan looked at Nym for a long moment in the dull light of the glow stone. He started to pack the basket back up and stood up to place it on a shelf in the wall. With his back to Nym he finally said, "Yes. I had twelve. Five were sold as eggs while I was still... right afterwards. The others I... I nursed a few." He took the glow stone without looking at them. "I'll put this back outside to charge."

Once Ivan had left, Ky said quietly. "They took three more while they were still eggs after he'd incubated them for a few days, then one was taken right after hatching. He named the last three. They were... still blind when handlers came for them. He never saw their eyes."