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AZIZA

I had been in Vessa’s employ long enough to know that none of it ever began with the real thing. It was always with a hem, or a misplaced letter, or a cup of tea allowed to cool by my failure to arrive promptly with it. Something small and fabricated which somehow gave the whole thing legitimacy.

The hem was on the serving dress she had assigned me for the morning's household reception. It was a reception of four ranked wives from allied packs, of tea and correspondence and of the precise
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