#earthrunes

While Zara and Earl are gone it is time to strike

Wearing masks so they cannot be identified, the boggans enter, and start to clean.

But then another maid loyal and true ,comes in and hisses, drawing her duster "You dare?" Ivanka stands ready

The masked boggans say "It's just... never really done, Ivanka. Just this once."

"Never" Ivanka says

Dusters are drawn from the boggans as well. They are full blooded changelings ,she but a sluagh blooded kinain ,but she will not give them this without a fight.

They seek to sweep dust away, she sweeps it back in place. They try to clear an unused cobweb, she salvages it for reattachment!

But they outnumber her, overpower her...

and then? The sisters join the fray , coming down from their own webs to land in boggan hair, and crawl in boggan maid uniforms

There are screams and panic... cries of 'get it off get it off' as multiple legs wriggle

In the end, they must flee! And Ivanka , tired and coughing, rasps out "Thank you, ladies. Now let us get this place in its proper state"

Even Zara mighty as she is, may never know of the battle of dust preservation, or the Melee of Maids. A good servant makes sure it seems as if there was never any trouble at all. And the sisters? The sisters would not make a fuss if Ivanka insists.

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