Cursor's Fury (90 page)

When the lamp came up again, she stood before him, naked and beautiful, and Tavi nearly exploded with wanting her as a surge of lust and joy and love and triumph blazed through him.

“What I mean, Aleran,” she said quietly, “is that all this time you were acting as if it was some kind of monumental task. When it is so
simple.
” She turned her head enough to regard the furylamp and said, firmly, “Off.”