The silence that followed their dance stretched for heartbeats too long before exploding into a cacophony of whispers that rippled through the banquet hall like wildfire mostly from ladies that had felt the blunt of Pyris' unleashed flames of lust that he had tried for the first time ever.
"Did you see... the way she responded to him?"
"That wasn't dancing—that was public claiming!"
"The magic... those pink-golden flames... I've never felt anything like it..."
"My body is still... gods, what was that power?"
"Princess Lekiza looked like she was about to... right there in front of everyone..."
"The Young Lord of House Obsidian just conquered another princess without even bedding her..."
At the table of male leaders, the Dragon Emperor leaned toward the Human Emperor with barely concealed amusement. "Your daughter seems quite... taken with the young man. That's what—the second princess he's claimed from your Empire now?"
