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Chapter 29
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2026-08-23 10:00:39~Nyla~
Lily did my hair, because Lily had asked to and I had not been able to find a way to say no that wasn't a lie.
"Hold still."
"I am still."
"You're vibrating." She got another pin in. "There. That's the last one, and if you touch it I'll break your fingers."
The hut was warm. Somebody had brought flowers in, actual flowers, and Sandra had spent the afternoon sewing the hem of a dress that had belonged to Jenna's mother and now, apparently
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~Nyla~"That's yours," Redmayne said again, quieter this time, like saying it twice might change what the ledger showed.The guards nearest us shifted, hands drifting toward hilts that hadn't been drawn a moment before. I felt the change in the corridor before I understood it, a stiffening in every man's shoulders, eyes sliding toward Oswald in a way they hadn't been sliding a minute ago."I signed nothing," Oswald said. His voice stayed level, but I caught the tightness at the corner of his jaw, the same tell he'd shown me at the old ground when he was holding something back. "I've been east since before dawn. You know that, Redmayne. You saw us ride out.""I know," Redmayne said, and his hands shook faintly around the ledger's spine. "I'm not accusing you, my lord. I'm telling you what the log shows, because someone else will read it before I get the chance to explain it kindly."
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