if it were a trivial thing. “I thought perhaps you would wish it salvaged.” “Very much so. I would lecture you that collecting my personal items and arranging them in your bedchambers is presumptuous at best, but I find myself incredibly grateful that you saw fit to save this. My cards?” “Your tarot deck is in your wardrobe.” She would have been sad to part with them. “Then I suppose I find myself doubly grateful and only once annoyed. So I shall say thank you, Vlad Dracula, for your kindness in rescuing my things.” “You should say nothing at all, for while you are twice grateful, it is I who
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