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  Chapter 8

  Birds cheerfully sang the next morning as the cousins awoke. Liselle came over to Tathan. “I’m sorry, Cousin. I didn’t mean to get mad at you. I get a little tired when I do magic and I really like flowers.”

  “No . . . that’s fine. I’m not upset. I’ll take the feelings of flowers into consideration.” He tried to contain a smirk.

  She lowered her eyebrows. “It’s fine if you laugh at me this time, but I want you to remember something.”

  Tathan was suddenly nervous. “Oh?”

  She leaned forward until they were face to face. Her tone was quiet and threatening. “The flowers like me back.”

  A part of him wanted to burst into laughter, but something in her voice made him realize the warning was serious, even a little sinister. He looked around the clearing.

  The flowers were all open. They stared at him.

  He gulped. “A . . . All right. I’ll remember that.”

  She smiled and hugged him again. He looked over her shoulder at the flowers. They had gone back to the business of being flowers. When Liselle released him, he got the horses ready while she made breakfast. Tathan was very careful not to step on flowers from that point on.