"I can't believe you're seriously considering this," Imogen spat out.

She'd been having a glass of wine in a sitting room when Bran came to fill her in on the meeting. Given her tipsy state, it may not have been her first glass.

"It's an amazing opportunity," Bran said tiredly, already tired of this conversation.

"An amazing opportunity to spend your time filthy and half naked on some alien world," she countered, "with the promise of an early grave."

"It's a chance to experience another culture vastly different from our own," he sighed.

"This isn't a summer across the sea, learning another language and eating exotic food," Imogen yelled. "This is spending the rest of your suddenly shortened life playing love sl...

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