When Ki came through the door of Healing Magick later that morning, however, the bell overhead tinkling to announce his arrival, Lucy’s heart soared. Then she saw the somber look on his face and it just as quickly plummeted. Had something happened between Ki and Prentice back at the house? Had Margaret changed her mind about Lucy being a good match for her son? The former would have been a surprise, since aside from stilted exchanges at meal times, Ki and Prentice barely spoke. There had been a couple of incidents when Lucy had caught them fencing so vigorously in the rearranged parlor she would have worried about their safety were it not for the blunted tips and rounded blades of the implements they had been using. Even during these occasions, they had barely spoken, their heavy breathing the only sound punctuating their efforts to do bodily harm to each other. She wondered why they bothered with it if they didn’t seem to be having any fun, but then men were weird that way in her experience, so competitive in games of skill and chance that sometimes it seemed their very lives depended on the outcome.
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