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The grand e square than it was to the palace It was a short walk in the cool, fall air before Ge the three additional noble fa the palace

Ge the chaotic mess of the kitchen She climbed a servants’ staircase and slipped into her workrooreat luxury of a fireplace

Ge the bell to summon a scullery maid before she unwrapped her materials and splayed the, Ge her head in the roo it would be you Could you get a fire started, please?" Ge for the fireplace Inthe room to a toasty temperature

"Is that all?"

Gemma snapped a knotted rope "No Stand, please"

Wide-eyed, Sissel stood, brushing off her ash-smeared s her rope Shethem and her shoulder width "Thank you, Sissel," Ge a complete circuit around her

"Sissel? Sissel!"

"Excusefor the door

"There you are," Malfrid, the head maid, said "Cook needs you in the kitchen Get aher formidable arms across her chest In this pose, she resembled a crea one, pounding down the servants’ stairs

"H into Gemma’s workroom "Must be nice to be paid to sit around a room and do little"

"Is it? I wouldn’t know," Ge Sissel’s measureood at what I do--not because I’m a personal friend of Lady Linnea," Malfrid said

"You needn’t worry about that ever happening to you--with Lady Linnea or anyone else," Ge a pin cushion

Malfrid went stiff as she tried to figure out if Ge her or not "Tale-teller," she finally said