Word: boyness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...though he described the coming months’ tasks with precision and authority, he was barely conscious of his own speech. Zalathal’s flanks were dark with sweat, and The Stable Boy, now shirtless, was pouring cool water from a bucket all down the curve of the beast’s spine. Frederick gave himself completely to the scene before him. He wondered what The Stable Boy would say if Frederick offered to rub him down...
...This would be the decisive moment. It had to be. And was not Frederick the master of his own estate? Was not The Stable Boy, in fact, his possession? As Frederick’s mind ran right up to the precipice, he felt for the first time in his life that he was speaking clearly...
...Stable boy,” he said. “There’s something I need you to do for me, something wholly beyond the sphere of your usual obligations...
...Viscount?” replied The Stable Boy. His expression revealed neither resistance nor eagerness, though a peculiar movement of his eyes might have indicated that he knew what was coming. “And where is this task to be performed...
...Frederick breathed in the barn’s hot air and felt the blood quicken in his veins. The Stable Boy took a single step in Frederick’s direction, and by this gesture Frederick knew that the two men understood one another...