Chapter58:

“Accounting. I’m trying to work out how many of my people have been killed or converted so that I can confidently take a stand against my brother. We have lost a lot more guardians than I care to mention.”  His voice was sad, as if he mourned each one of them personally.  “Anything I can do to help?”  He looked around for a moment before he shook his head. “It looks as if these are all things that I need to deal with.”  I kissed him again before I slid off of his lap, wandering to a book shelf which housed thousands of books. “All books I had some influence in.” Morpheus laughed. “I keep them as a reminder that I can do some good in this place.”  I smiled. “One of these are about the succubae... had much experience with those?”  He laughed, coming to stand behind me.  “The only temptress I’m interested in is you, my love.”  I fluttered my lashes at him demurely and wrapped my arms around his neck. “Temptress? Me? Never!”  A knock on the door disrupted our teasing and the door swung ope