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"Has she always been this bossy?" Felix asked Di her best friend," replied Dimity

"Crikey"

"Dimity, am I really? That’s so sweet" Sophronia was distracted froht of Dimity as her best friend, but they had never talked about it, and she’d no idea Diregarious, and had lots more friends than Sophronia Possibly because she wasn’t so bossy

"Of course Sorry, Sidheag," Di made a face "You two are attached at the hip, everyone knows that"

To Felix, Sophronia said, "I only get bossy when it’s io first, she has ize, Dimity, but the shock value alone of your outlandish appearance ned expression, coave her a er, portlier days

"Definitely bossy," said Felix, resigned

"Oh, hush up, you like it," said Sophronia

Felix grabbed her hand, and before she could protest, pressed a swift kiss to her ar Of course, Sophronia was delighted

"I do," he o just before she would have felt it necessary to jerk away

Soap hissed a little, like an offended cat

Diether "Don’t worry, Sophronia, I’ll look after hi doubtfully at Dimity

So they left Felix crouched behind Die They could only pray the drone had no gun Sophronia hated to think her friends were going into danger on her orders The price of bossiness, she thought

But she had to trust in Dimity’s abilities; it needed to be a coordinated attack So she led the other tard, over the two passenger coaches, hopefully empty, and then over the tender to the cab The cab had open doorways on both sides She crouched on the right and Soap on the left, ready to swing down and in Sidheag held position on the roof behind them, to follow as soon as possible, whichever side seemed necessary

Sophronia waved her arht

Sophronia looked over and was about to nod to Soap when he pointed up Ahead and above theible The one Soap had spotted before No time to think about that Sophronia spread her hands in mystification and then nodded at hi on to the top edge of the cab roof, then swinging out and twisting around feet first through the doorway to land inside the cab proper Sophronia, trained in acrobatic execution, had had ample opportunity to practice as she climbed about the school In trousers, it was easy as buttered crumpets She had no idea why Soap knew the maneuver, but sooties were universally fit and Soap very athletic He did get a bit tangled up in the doorfra was one knee down

A good thing, too, for Monique had taken a swing at hiht over his head

The driver with the hugeon the controls and only half noticed the intruders It helped that the noise was deafening so close to the engine--the hiss of stea cables and pistons

Monique hadn’t noticed Sophronia yet Her attention was on Soap

Sophronia wasn’t really a killer She’d never particularly enjoyed the assassination part of her lessons, but she couldn’t have the driver s up, either So she simply tapped the man on the ar…?"