title: Night Elves: Wicked Pleasures
author:  Nelissa Danavan 
description: "Ms. Donovan draws in her readers and sweeps us away...." -- <i>Road to Romance</i><br /><br />"WICKED PLEASURES is the first of a new erotic fantasy series that promises to thrill, chill and delight." -- <i>Sensual Romance Reviews</i><br /><br />5 ROSES "WICKED PLEASURES was a great, erotic, fantasy romance read; it contained action, great characters, and fantastic world-building." -- <i>Escape to Romance</i>
zlib_text: * * *
  
  [previous](Chapter36.html) | [Table of Contents](-TheFiresofHeaven-.html) |
  [next](Chapter38.html)
  
  * * *
  
  ## Chapter 37
  
  ![Lion](../Graphics/lion.gif)
  
  #### _Performances in Samara_
  
  * * *
  
  For what seemed the hundredth time, Nynaeve held a lock of her hair up to look
  at it and sighed. Thick murmurs of talk and laughter from hundreds if not
  thousands of throats, distant music that was nearly drowned out, drifted in
  through the wagon walls. She had not minded spending the parade through the
  streets of Samara in the wagon with Elayne--occasional peeks through the
  windows had convinced her that she would just as soon not be out in those
  packed crowds, yelling and barely making way for the wagons--but every time
  she looked at the brassy red of her hair, she wished she had been doing
  somersaults with the Chavanas rather than dyeing it.
  
  Carefully not looking at herself, she wrapped up completely in her plain dark
  gray shawl, turned, and gave a start to find Birgitte standing in the 