He turned to her then. Atalanta's hands shook and her heart pounded more than it ever had after any footrace.
You're an idiot she told herself. Yet trembling from head to foot she held out the apples.
"You dropped these," she stammered.
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Seventeen
Short StoryOn her seventeenth birthday, Princess Atlanta of Tegea is given a present: she is told she is to be married, but that she may pick the suitor. Determined not to marry until a certain person comes along, she comes up with an impossible challenge. Cov...
