"Toni--" he started to say, but stopped almost instantly as he absorbed the urgency of his sister's words. "Tonight..." he thought, anxiously, as a vision of his new bride dressed in no more than moonbeams sprang into his mind. He swallowed hard and tried to empty his thoughts of his erotic visions of her...and even some of the not-so-naughty ones, as even they were enough to tantalize him and fan the flames of his desires into a roaring inferno. He had JUST met the girl! How in the world could she have had such an explosive effect on him, so suddenly?

...and he hadn't even seen her unclothed...

He sighed, pitifully. If this was how things were going to be, he didn't know how he was going to be able to contain himself, to wait until evening to have his wife in the intimately pleasurable way that a man enjoyed a woman. Still, his arousal would have to be maintained...

"Artemis?" a powerful voice called.

Knowing, of course, who the voice belonged to, Artemis shook his head, lightly and turned to face the Emperor of Calico. "Yes, Father?" he replied, obediently.

"I need to have a word with you." the emperor, Kosuda, said, firmly.

"And you will come with me, my little princess." the empress, Athena said to her daughter, sweeping her away from her twin and over to the new Princess of Calico and her family.

Ajua smiled at her mother and nuzzled her, fondly. She was only to eager to meet the new additions to her family. Meanwhile, Kosuda walked with his son through a garden of roses.