"With life there is pain, and with death there is none, but if you choose life, remember this.

The woman with the blue eyes, as you call her, has become the star of my life.

If harm should come to her, not only you, but every one of your family and race, in whatsoever part of the world they may be, will leave this life in agony." The girl stood and wondered.
"My lord thinks so much of a plaything ?" she murmured.
Prince Shan frowned.

His finely shaped, silky eyebrows almost met.

She covered her eyes and drooped her head.
"We of the East," he said, "although we are the mightier race, progress slowly, because the love of new things is not with us.