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"Oh, the new issue of Cavalier Quarterly is here! Briar, run this out to the kennels, will you? Lord Aiden will want to see this." Marigold asks a bored-looking redcap girl.
"I ain't your courier, Goldy. Why don't YOU? I'm busy." Busy indeed, looking in a mirror and prying with a skewer at something caught between one of her teeth and a brace bracket. Something... stringy.
"Well, I was going to ask that you take him some of these freshly baked pasties as well. If you're not interested, I'm sure someone else-"
"I GOT THE DAMN PONYMAG, FINE." And Briar delivers!
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