"What do I call you?" Denni seemed startled."What do I call you?" Denni seemed startled. "I don't know. What do you want to call me?" "I was debating between coimelin and fiance." He smiled. "I am going to marry you, you know. Big in-house wedding, broken glasses, the whole thing." She smiled. "I know. I wonder what I'll look like with the veil and everything." "You'll look beautiful. Nothing makes a fem prettier than her wedding dress." She swallowed nervously. "Come on," she said. "Let's go." They made their way down the hallway and out the coupling into Parma. "It's hard to believe I'm doing this," David said. "It's hard to believe I want to do this," Denni replied. "Here we are." She smiled. "SDisk." A pleasant, masculine voice said "Listening. Destination, please?" "Shardik Castle." David watched as the world vanished, to be replaced with a long, gleaming hallway that opened up into a wide room. Within, David saw a bewildering collection of a half-dozen children swarming around, a rather harried-looking melCentaur trying desperately to catch one of the smallest ones. |