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"Dilana," I said to stop her "I only need a few things"

"Why didn’t you co to an, then quit I wasn’t sure how Dilana felt about her

"Margg’s a rown bully," Dilana declared

I blinked at her in surprise

"She instantly dislikes anyone new, and she’s basically a plague on the rest of us"

"But she was nice to you"

"She hounded me for weeks after I first arrived Then I snuck into her wardrobe and tightened all her skirts It took her teeks of physical disco" Dilana swooped down next tocan’t sew a stitch, so she had to tuck in her pride and ask for rabbed et But don’t let her get to you If Margg’s nasty, be nasty right back When she sees you’re not easy prey, she’ll lose interest"

I had trouble believing that this lovely woman was capable of such underhandedness, but her shtclothes over htly colored ribbons

"For the festival, itive for the exercise?" the Commander asked Valek as soon as Valek arrived in his office for lunch

I was tasting the Coain destroyedas the official food taster for the last ten days, but my stomach had finally stopped its painful contractions whenever I was near the Commander

"Yes I know the perfect person for the job" Valek settled into the chair facing the Coiven up all pretense ofmy own business, my exclamation echoed the Commander’s

"Explain," the Coh he knew all along what the Commander would say "My people are trained to avoid capture Assigning one of them wouldn’t be fair to the search party