“I washed the Divining robes this morning." The gargoyle led me down the nave. On the final pew, six silk robes waited. "It was an abundant chore. I am within myself with fatigue."
"Beside," I murmured, peeling off my clothes. " 'Beside myself with fatigue' is the proper expression."
The gargoyle's stone brow knit. "If I were beside myself, there would be two of me, and the washing would have taken half the time.”
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Rachel Gillig,
The Knight and the Moth