Pippin began to remove his armor, but Ivy's hands stopped his. "Leave it on," she whispered. She pushed him back onto the huge bed and crawled up to straddle his legs.
"When I saw the painting again today," she said, "I remembered how it made me feel when I was a girl." She ran her hands over the White Tree embroidered on his coat. "How handsome you looked then." She leaned down to whisper in his ear. "How handsome you are now."
She sat up and lifted the edge of the coat. Her hands found the ties to his breeches.