title: A Poetic Insanity Plea
author: Lucan Lobban
description: One who has always loved the art of painting pictures with words. Finally puts his eccentric weird thinking pattern to the canvas to give you art in a clever, humorous form.
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  [Chapter 5](../Text/ILAR-4.html#toc_marker-9)
  
  
  
  
  
  The Quest
  
  
  
  
  
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  He shouldn’t have done it. He should not have allowed the arrogant boy
  confined beneath his ribs to best him. And he most assuredly should not have
  touched her after she threw the chocolate at him. Her wrist had been so
  slender in his grasp, her strength a revelation he was a fool to have
  forgotten.
  
  
  
  
  
  Then he’d made the grave mistake of looking at her lips. He’d gotten lost in
  contemplation of those lips too many times in years past to have made such a
  blunder now.
  
  
  
  
  
  He’d gone off, berated himself for a fool, changed his clothing, and gone to
  the stable to see to his horse. Then he’d seen her walk onto the moor at
  midnight, a willow sylph with golden tresses.
  
  
  
  
  
  And he’d done it again.
  
  
  
  
  
  She drove him insane. She had always driven him insane. Now, however, he’d no
  business making wagers with her. He was no longer a 