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487 - You Little Squirt!

I was sitting in the dog yard, the sun beating on my head, trying to work up the will to walk into the Marble Palace.
Tanifas had run me around with his pack and every time the dogs had started misbehaving he'd throw another question at me about what I was thinking or about something that would make me stop and stare at him wanting to ask how he knew.  "The dogs are telling me," he'd say.  "

486 - Fig for Hire?

"Ienas."  I swear that my little professional god created me specifically to have fun with me. 
My son looked up from where he was making the last entry in our daily take book. "Yes, dad?" I let the letter in my hand flap open to show the fancy stock, the silver ink and the silver ribbons.  He blinked. "That can't be real, so soon after we catered those big parties of his…"
"Oh?  And who didn'

485 - Ahem, Young man, Ahem

I slapped both my hands over my mouth and shut my eyes as if that would help.  "Ilesias?  Ilesias Aan is that you?  Come out of wherever you are hiding ahem, this instant young man!"  I fumbled with the listening tube plug and shut out Ailadas's voice demanding I come out.
Oh, Ten… I was in trouble.
I wiggled out of the hidey hole with Jiaklem following me with his slippey slappy noises as he

486 - Ahem, Young man, Ahem

I slapped both my hands over my mouth and shut my eyes as if that would help.  "Ilesias?  Ilesias Aan is that you?  Come out of wherever you are hiding ahem, this instant young man!"  I fumbled with the listening tube plug and shut out Ailadas's voice demanding I come out.
Oh, Ten… I was in trouble.
I wiggled out of the hidey hole with Jiaklem following me with his slippey slappy noises as he

Abortive Post

I slapped both my hands over my mouth and shut my eyes as if that would help.  "Ilesias?  Ilesias Aan is that you?  Come out of wherever you are hiding ahem, this instant young man!"

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My apologies... I'll have to do more of this tomorrow... I'm just too tired to finish tonight.  I'm labouring to fluff my house to put it on the market. 

485 - More Post after Midnight

I slapped both my hands over my mouth and shut my eyes as if that would help.  "Ilesias?  Ilesias Aan is that you?  Come out of wherever you are hiding ahem, this instant young man!"

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My apologies... I'll have to do more of this tomorrow... I'm just too tired to finish tonight.  I'm labouring to fluff my house to put it on the market. 

484 - In the Lesser Purple Tourmaline Reading Room

Ailadas was sittin' in the Lesser Purple Tourmaline Reading Room and he's reading to Sera Eren.  She'd been coming into the Marble Palace every day after my lessons were done and they'd had kaf in one of the parlors and then he'd offer her his elbow to walk her to one reading room or another.
I was supposed to be doing the work he assigned me, and I kind of did, but only as much as I understood…

483 - If the Gods Were Like People

"So are you saying that fear of the Ten separates us from the Gods?"  The question was from one of the young people, Ormanas, Daurama Liren thought, her fan waving serenely. Her daughter leaned forward, eyes on the dekinas as he rose to answer.  My beautiful girl.  I worried so.  First of all when your father sent you away to the elegant madhouse that the Marble Palace was.  It was such a coup

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