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"I mustn't speak about him."

What was wrong with her? Wasn't she actually trying to escape rules like that?

"Why?"

"He's tall and strong," she blurted out, with the overwhelming need, from that moment on, to bite her lips. "And he travels a lot."

"OK. And why are you dressed as if coming out from a medieval fancy ball? Wait a second! Oh, my… Six sisters in a castle…," Joseph rubbed his forehead with both hands and then his chin several times. "I can't believe it! But then it's true! The legend is real!"

"NO!!!" the girl screamed and ran upstairs to the room where Roxanne was sleeping.

"Alan!" Joseph called, when he saw his friend coming in, at that precise moment, through the front door. "You won't believe what I have to tell you!"