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Lady Maccon looked at her daughter "The repulsion, youas it would be with a preternatural skeleton nearby"

"Mother, don’t besensation"

"I suppose it would be different for you What exactly does it feel like? I mean, ould you compare the sensation to?"

"You"

Lady Maccon nodded "Makes sense It is rotesque way Or, to be precise, a lot of deadas it used to be But I suppose they haven’t been renewing or expanding it One assumes over time, with exposure, even mummies decompose"

"Really, Mother,way "Don’t worry, dear It’s no longer important"

Rue fished about in her ue, isn’t it?"

"Indeed"

"Well, then, I guess we can wake up Pahenever you like, full "

"Oh, of course!" Lady Maccon slapped her head with her hand "How silly of me" She immediately snapped her parasol shut and bustled below

Rue didn’t stop her It would be much easier to have an awake Lord Maccon when the customs officials boarded Bureaucrats were likely to frown upon aristocratic Scotsmen preserved naked in tanks

The three official representatives of the Ministry of Public Works, War, Custoht expect They were stiff and huetation, decidedly ie, of sorts, at the top of the black obelisk It was s instead of s so that it looked quite grue extended several articulated ays As soon as they ithin reach, one of these cla of The Spotted Custard with the ease of frequent repetition There were eight of these ra so s about and latching onto airships

The as long enough for Rue and Primrose to don their frilliest dresses andladies with e about the very rich, very young, very fashionable Englishwoman on a pleasure jaunt that defeated even the ent of Queen Victoria by his dress if not his language, kitted out in soh not quite the correct colours The other tore long white robes and funny little hats that Priuide reliably inforuide was very clear on how dress indicated social standing in Egyptian society Primrose believed it wholeheartedly; Baedeker never led her astray Rue was suspicious What, for exaiven only a few lines of dialogue and an encounter with her fluffiest hat?

While the custoation, Rue and Pri faster than a kettle at full boil about the s in a way that was not exactly distracting but certainlyThey tossed scones happily at one another in the galley, cooed over the crochet coverlets in the guest rooled over a book in the library