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Anda felt eyes on her; someone was in the observation gallery. She met two astonished blue eyes staring at them through the pierced screen. The Heir, she thought, that rude, dismissive boy. His eyes nearly popped out of his head, and he stared so hungrily she wondered if he'd burst through the screen, push the woman out of the way and pounce on her himself.

It was not the stare of a man merely aroused; it was the stare of a man who'd never seen anything like it before--very probably a man who'd never seen a naked woman. She smiled insolently back at him. I will wrap you round my thumb for your disdain, young man, she thought, then returned her attention to the woman, stroking her soft brown hair. When she looked up again, he was gone. The woman had nearly fallen asleep, the nipple in her mouth, but at Anda's touch she renewed her nursing.