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"Why are we out here again?" It was half a whisper, half a hiss, from one of the girls to the other, either not meant to be heard by the guards they were at the arms of or pretending it. "Oh, come on, you know why!" "I think I heard a spider. I hate spiders." "You hate everything, oh my...

"Oh, of course. My daughter is going to be there. She wouldn't dare miss it. Appearances and all. She... wouldn't miss it." The lady sounded a bit like she was trying to convince herself, and paused at an intersection with a sigh. "This way. At least my son made sure we had nice rooms...

From her reaction to the question, she hadn't expected it - perhaps she hadn't expected a mere servant to make any inquiries or say anything beyond yes, ma'am, or perhaps there was something else to it. "Don't you know? Everyone-" She half turned to him, looking him over. Her gaze didn't...

The woman took his arm, not so much as if she wanted to lean on it, but more in the manner of someone who expected it - aristocratic all the way through, to be offered aid in all she did. Her son watched them with some concern, momentarily, but seemed to decide the situation was well enough in...

"The paint, boy. The orange paint I asked for. I need it for her eyes." By the way the woman spoke, she fully expected Caleb to know exactly what she was talking about, and perhaps also have a tube of paint in his pocket at this very moment that he could hand her. Footsteps may have saved...

Karen shrugged, not wanting to argue the point about whether or not Yuina could hear them. There was the hunger, always, but it was more than that. It wasn't really spoken, but it was always words. She didn't know how to explain it. She wasn't good with words - or maybe she was like the...

Caleb couldn't have known how far he would get, but it likely wasn't as far as he'd have wanted. He was stopped by - of all things - a prod in the ribcage, from his blind side. "You, boy. Where is it?" The speech - and the prodding - had apparently come from an older woman, wielding - of...

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=La+Belle+Aurore&display=swap) @import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Aldrich&display=swap) "Yeah, yeah. Overthinking it, I know. Or maybe I'm just really serious about Thai food or something." She stood up, getting...

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=La+Belle+Aurore&display=swap) @import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Aldrich&display=swap) What, now? Actually, Auraliese should have expected that. Spork... Spork seemed like a very right now sort of person. She...

The guards didn't seem concerned by Caleb's announcement - maybe it was just that they were fending off enough people who wanted to speak to the royal family or the bride herself or all of the above, on the wedding day. To have someone keep his head down and ask to speak to a butler wasn't...

"A lair?" Eiji repeated, in protest. Lairs were for bad guys. They were... oh, no. They were the bad guys. They were sneaking around and breaking the rules and going in places where they weren't supposed to be, and now they were going to have a lair and - and- Akina held her hand out to...

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=La+Belle+Aurore&display=swap) @import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Aldrich&display=swap) Hadn't expected that one, had they? Spork looked about like the pigeon that had been hit with a rock for a moment, floundering...

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=La+Belle+Aurore&display=swap) @import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Aldrich&display=swap) "You don't even know when my birthday is." Actually, did they know when Auraliese's birthday was? Mari did, so it wasn't...

"I think I'm going to get married in the spring." "Really. To who?" "Melia. The girl I told you about." "The one you haven't asked out?" "I've got time!" "You're an idiot." Checking in at the west gate was boring, tedious, and a number of other synonyms. The guards were armed, but not...

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Spectral&display=swap) Oh, wow, that had actually worked. Cait had not expected that. Not that it wasn't great, it was just that she hadn't expected it - that never worked. Well, it probably would have worked with the Fae, but that was...