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Tobias grabbed his papers and threw theer in my face, then yelled, "You think you’re so clever, but if you push me any further you’ll see how foolish you are"

"I never denied being a fool," I said, lying back down on my bed "That’s the difference between us"

I slept the rest of that evening and through the night, waking up only when Ies

There was so much I wanted to ask her, but someone else was always in the room with us, and any real conversation was impossible

I washer any particular attention, though I still felt the entire charade was ridiculous Most of these servants caht noas much en or Errol or Mott shouldn’t have threatened any of theht stiffness to my muscles I must’ve been too tired the day before to notice how sore they were, or maybe it was that I didn’t have toht Mott into the room to ensure I accepted that help It wasn’t necessary Standing there with my arms out while Errol dressed me was about as le, I ed to stay awake that day and even paid a se tutors Master Graves made it very clear that they had moved on without me and had no time to return to the lessons of the previous few days, so I would have to catch up as best as I could

"It’s been a week since you ca than the first day we started"

I told him that was probably because I’d only had two of his lessons and, in all fairness to myself, hadn’t really bothered to pay attention to either of thelares at me, and he focused the rest of the lesson on Roden

Mistress Havala also said there wasn’t enough tienerously used the word indisposed -- but gave me two books that she said contained much of the same information

"You probably can’t read them without help," she said "Perhaps Tobias will help you in the evenings"

"I’iven ripped the sides of his chair and said whatever he ht do to please Master Conner would please hihting lessons that afternoon I was excused fro, but Mott insisted I watch them I watched the horseback lessons until they rode too far away forlesson was so Tobias was still a disaster with a sword, but Roden had inificantly I wondered if he was naturally talented or if he’d been putting in a lot of extra hours of practice

Mott coan had offered to help hian is skilled with a sword, but he’s self-taught," Mott warned "With hiht, but your style will not reflect the training of a prince"

"My lessons with you will help an’s lessons will keepwas relatively quiet Conner vaguely inquired after our progress but said he’d already had full reports fro to try to catch up

I shrugged and said I planned to study Tobias’s notes after he was asleep Tobias shot hed

"And what is your response to that?" Conner asked Tobias

Tobias shook his head "I have no notes, sir And Sage couldn’t read theet them and perhaps even read thee will end up as my choice"