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"That doesn’tin here This is a sacred space"

Pri? In a library! Oh, Rue"

Tasherit re Primrose had said and didn’t care about Rue’s indiscretions Well, to be fair, she wasn’t British She didn’t think the same way

"Wait a moment" Rue was struck with confusion "Tasherit, what are you doing awake?"

"Oh, didn’t you notice?" Percy was snide "We’ve puffed out of the grey Occupied with soave Quesnel a nasty look

Quesnel issued a s saged?"

The question wasn’t addressed to anyone in particular, so Rue, Percy, and Quesnel all nodded

"Was I the only one not told?" The werecat did not look honoured by the exception "Odd to be so singled out"

"I hadn’t seen you to tell you" Never had Rue known Primrose to lie in such a barefaced manner

"Fiddlesticks!" The word sounded exotic with Tasherit’s accent "You’ve been avoiding me this entire journey When I haven’t been asleep"

Rue’s, Quesnel’s, and Percy’s focus bounced back and forth between the co a badminton match

Prim went on the defensive "If you wouldn’t press me so!"

Tasherit’s beautiful face came over all inscrutable "I enjoy your company I hardly think that pressure"

Footnotemanner until he spotted Tasherit, at which point his tail bristled up like a bottlebrush and he hissed

The werecat sniffed "Well, I knohen I’m not wanted"

Despite Quesnel’s and Rue’s protestations, she exited the library with graceful finality

Rue said to Footnote, although she was really addressing Pri friend She is a valuable member of my crew, you know"

Footnote subsided into a loaf position, looking like an upended Christ with interested ears

Percy leapt to his cat’s defence "He’s entitled to his own opinion"

Rue could hardly argue with that "You’d best be wary, er than you Could easily turn you into an Endnote"