The world hasn't ended, and Raleigh's pretty sure he's glad. That doesn't mean he's happy about the PPDC wanting them back.

His secrets were collateral. They were a contract, a promise that he would not go back on his word. Her flesh, his soul: when she knew things that not even the King knew, things that could ruin him, they became equal.

Kisse he me with the cos of his mouth.
For thi tetis ben betere than wyn, and yyuen odour with beste oynementis.
 

Richard and Anne make out in the bath.

Five photographs from the collection of Carlotta Valdez.

Five Christmases, and four Christmas courts. Eleanor of Aquitaine sees the holidays through.

When the word gets out regarding Luke and Leia's parentage, a number of things become exponentially more complicated.

Something always brings me back to you... it never takes too long

(People wouldn't do it if it didn't feel good.)

There's a kind of unlucky energy in him when he's at rest, something at work inside of John of which he's only the feverish engine; the heat in him stirs when they are as close as this and she doesn't know what to do with it.

Anne has got some stuff to work through about becoming queen, and Richard is an obliging audience.