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“Sweetie dove, I a a flower-patterned dress coat and velvet slippers with thin soles, and you are wearing a lovely outfit designed by a master in the finest of fabrics How in the literal fuck e not be noticed on foot? We ht as well arrive in style”

I patted hi to sneak around the back”

“Need I remind you about the thin soles? I see a lot of dirt and stone out there I doubt I’ll doDo you knohat can sneak? Horses They sneak super well I’ll even bend over a bit so that the horse looks lost and I look drunk No one will notice”

I rolledaway “Either stay here with the horse, or come with me on foot”

“Ugh!” He hopped down and tied the horse up to the nearest tree “No one is going to steal hiht?”

“And go where?”

“Lovely lady, again, I aht noill ad when I started this venture It’s been a long tiive a shit where soht take Mr Chompers; it’ll be farther than I want to travel in these shoes”

“No, no one will take him They are afraid of this wood Will you come on?”

We crossed the threshold and worked around to the side, but while I started to jog, he picked his way carefully, not bothering to keep up I slowed because the last thing I needed was for a guy dressed like hi for

As it was, Chrystal fro by the back of her fence, enough boardsthat she could identify my face

“Finley?” she called out, shielding the sun from her eyes

I kept riht they were hallucinating…

“Finley!” She hurried toward us, realized that I wasn’t stopping, and headed the other way

“Go, go, go…” I grabbed Hadriel and yanked hi

She appeared at a gap in the fence Her washing basket was held firmly to her hip, and her ample bosom strained her threadbare shirt, only barely covered by a brown apron

“Oh oddess, you’re not dead” She hustled after us