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"Uh" Karigan began "I--I was hoping to take a bath"

"You et your cast wet, you shall ruin it, and then where would we be? I’e baths for you until your wrist heals"

Karigan grie baths? Isn’t there a way to--"

"Mender’s orders"

Karigan was beginning to resent the strict dictates of Mender Sa of which," Mirriam continued, "you should be in bed"

"I, uan pointed into the roo porcelain bowl

"Land sakes, child, then use it, but no playing with the plu I shall await you in the hallway and see you back to bed directly"

Karigan sighed as Mirria to be as easy to sneak around the house as she hoped, with the housekeeper patrolling the halls like a guard dog

• • •

Back in her rooround "I do not wish to get back in bed" Before Mirriam could utter another of Mender Samuels’ proclamations, she added, "I’"

Mirriaan’s, and the two stared at one another for several ht handed?" the housekeeper asked

Karigan raised her plastered wrist as if it were a foreign object "Yes"

"Then needle work is likely out"