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"Enter," Severin said, setting down the papers

Duval stepped inside Severin’s study, a s on his plump face as he passed his slate to Severin

Made She has been informed that she will be bedridden for two to three weeks

"She can go then?"

Duval flatted his lips at Severin and plucked the slate froers He meticulously wiped the slate with a handkerchief before writing

No She must stay in bed for two to three weeks

Severin narrowed his eyes at his castle’s attending barber-surgeon "How long do you plan for this intruder to stay here?"

Up to six months

"Absolutely not," Severin said "The break in her leg couldn’t have been that bad--the bone didn’t separate h the skin It shouldn’t take months for her to heal"

Duval wrote on his slate

If you want her to be healed enough to survive the journey back to her village it will be sixher Keep her out of ht, the less I hear of her the better," Severin said

A pleased smile twitched on Duval’s lips, and Severin flattened his cat ears as he wondered if he hadn’t , Duval," Severin said before returning his attention to his paperwork

The barber-surgeon waddled out of the rooet to the bottoe of notes before there was another knock at the door

Severin dropped his hands--and the notes he held--to the desk with a thurowl deep in his throat "Enter," he said, his deep voice lowered in warning

E Severin’s ire "What," he said, his voice flat and void of questions