The Dancer

By Barbara G.Tarn

Former adventurer Kumar is now king and his balance is shaking again. There's no happily ever after for Indira... when a northern dancer reaches the palace, awakening Kumar's feelings.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Unicorn Productions
• Release date: May 17, 2011

Barbara G.Tarn

Barbara G.Tarn had an intense life in the Middle Ages that stuck to her through the centuries. She prefers swords to guns, long gowns to mini-skirts, and even though she buried the warrior woman, she deplores the death of knights in shining chainmail. She likes to think her condo apartment is a medieval castle, unfortunately lacking a dungeon to throw noisy neighbors and naughty colleagues in. Also known as the Lady with the Unicorns, these days she prefers to add a touch of fantasy to all her stories, past and present – when she’s not wandering on her fantasy world of Silvery Earth or in her Star Minds futuristic universe. She’s a writer, sometimes artist, mostly a world-creator and story-teller. Two of her stories received an Honorable Mention at the Writers of the Future contest. She writes, draws, ignores her day job and blogs every other day.

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THE DANCER

by Barbara G. Tarn

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November 2011

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The Dancer

The dancer arrived at Argantael from a faraway northern kingdom. She was almost fluent in the southern language and traveled with her own musician. Her dance-steps were new to the court, and the accompanying music was also different, even if the instrument played was similar to a local one. She made strange figures with her arms, and danced on tiptoes, opening her legs like a contortionist both in the air and on the ground.

Kumar thought not even Aishwarya had impressed him that much. The foreign dancer had normal blue eyes and brown hair, wore a wide gown that flew around her like flower petals, and seemed lost in another world when she danced. Aishwarya had been formally perfect, but soulless - this girl put everything in her dance.

Transfixed, Kumar stared at her figures and imagined her doing them over him instead of the floor. He was aroused simply watching her, and suddenly his wife, Indira, his children - Tarun, little Rani - and the rest of the court (including baby Neha who slept in her