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"She’s only a drone," sneered Sidheag "And she lost the operation, so Countess Nadasdy will not be happy with her I say we dispose of her"

"She is trained If we let her go, she’s not without resources," cautioned Di to explode," said Sophronia

Soap said, "I’d rather we don’t actually kill her, I’d as soon not go down for murder"

Dusty only looked embarrassed by the whole conversation

In the end, they elected to push Monique out the door as the train crossed a soose pond The water looked particularly dirty Soap slowed the train while Dihtful squawking noise around the gag as she fell She alsosplash Hopefully, there wouldn’t be another train along for ages

With Monique gone the an to plan how to acquire ave a holler She’d spentby one arm out the doorhile Sophronia took the same position behind Soap This left roo and Dusty to stoke

Diible on the horizon"

"Flywaymen?"

"Hard to tell, they’re far off"

Sophronia ca her eyes "I don’t think it’s the one we crashed into, how could they repair it that fast? Besides, this one looks aruard?" Sidheag asked

"Looks like"

"I guess the Picklemen decided we know too ht proudly, under the circu Lord Mersey ratted us out," said Sidheag

"Not " Sophronia was abruptly tired of that game And she didn’t like the way Soap’s shoulders hunched at Sidheag’s words

"If they knoe’re Made stressed her point Bunson’s boys on the loose larking up to Scotland were one thing Bunson’s boys were dangerous with exotic inventions but could be depended upon to coenda eventually Madeerous with information and couldn’t be depended upon by anyone but their patrons

That was the moment when Sophronia realized their safest course of action would have been to return to school The Pickleainst Madeencers investigating Plus, they couldn’t afford to ible following theht a stiff breeze and was gaining on theibles, except those new high-flyers out of France They could tell even at a distance that this was an older model, of the kind Queen Victoria once employed in the Royal Float Force, heavy and heavily aruess we try to outrun it," said Soap "All hands to the boilers!"

By this point in the journey, iven Dusty a hand with the boilers, breaking whenever he needed a rest As a result, they had all developed so froht, before this journey, that she was rather fit She was, after all, prone to cli was a whole different beast It fully hard work, and explained Soap’s delightful muscles There were only two shovels on the train, so they took turns going as fast as they could, working their way through what coal was left in the tender at an alarirl, inside the tender, scooped it forward into range, then the stoker shoved it as fast as possible into the boiler