"Why? Let me guess—you saw another girl's legs before returning to Tobesk?"
Leisha smiled at Shade in the mirror, though there was no dissatisfaction in her tone.
"Don't worry. You were very good last night. In fact, such a passionate night was exactly what I had hoped for."
Then she turned to ask her younger sister:
"Angelina, how does my complexion look?"
The little princess stood behind Leisha with a comb in hand and looked at her through the mirror, answering honestly:
"Very good. You could even say you're positively radiant. I think that even without makeup, you're prettier than any young girl in this palace."
Though it was the truth, she had deliberately used the phrase "young girl" to imply that her elder sister was somewhat old.
After Leisha satisfactorily put on her earrings, she leaned closer to the mirror and touched her cheek.
"Actually, my complexion has always been good, especially after Shade shared some little tricks from the Elixir of Immortality. I thought that after sleeping for only an hour, I would—"
"Cough, cough!"
Angelina accidentally coughed. Leisha glanced at her through the mirror, a subtle smile appearing on her lips. Looking back at Shade, she saw him holding Mia and repeatedly tossing her onto the bed. The Cat was happily bouncing on the mattress.
"What are you doing?"
She asked as Angelina braided her hair.
"Look."
Shade picked Mia up and held her with her back toward the mattress. The moment he let go, the Cat rotated one hundred and eighty degrees as she fell, landing on the bed with all four little paws touching the surface.
"I discovered that no matter how a Cat falls, it always lands on all fours. So I was thinking, if I had two Mias, tied them back-to-back, and threw