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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 11:36 pm
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Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 7:05 pm
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Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 8:24 am
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Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 10:30 am
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Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 9:16 pm
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Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 4:03 pm
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Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 4:34 pm
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 11:32 am
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 11:45 am
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 12:38 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:27 pm
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"Nor can I wait to be your king," Dee replied, smiling without guilt or grievance. He was actually beginning to grow fond of Indya, not as merely a beautiful ornament to hang at his side, but as someone he might be able to call his queen without regret.
He clapped his hands together loudly. Two servants appeared almost instantly, and Dee dictated a message, ordering them to deliver it with all haste-- one to the heralds, and one to the kitchen staff. The servants bowed and exited. Dee grinned at Indya. "I just gave him the message to announce our wedding plans to the kingdom, and to begin preparations," he said triumphantly. "No Wonderlander will abstain from celebration! Now, what is it you wanted to see, my dove?"
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Nana crawled through a space beneath the floors of the castle that got smaller and smaller as she moved along. Finally, when it seemed she might no longer fit between the walls, she reached a trap door, checked her map to make certain of her location, and reached up to lift the latch and push the door open as gently as possible.
She hauled herself out and looked around. She was in a store room, full of various types of foods, preserves, and ingredients-- but that wasn't what she was looking for. At the far end of the cold stone-walled room was a closet, inside which were uniforms of the Tweedles' serving-girls. Nana dipped inside the closet, closed the door, and quickly donned a uniform that was closest to her size, leaving her own clothes in the corner beneath the bottom shelf. Stepping out of the closet, she glanced at her map once more before folding it and putting it in her new apron pocket and making her way up to the kitchens. Hopefully, she could pass off as a new employee, and get a closer look at the plans of the horrific twins.
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:37 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 11:35 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 5:55 pm
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 12:49 am
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((Sorry I haven't been on in a few days-- the internet was down at home so I couldn't get here....))
Nana smiled as she began her work in the kitchens, feeling the familiarity of being a serving-girl in a castle from all those years ago.... The thought made her heart tattoo and the golden X that Tick had drawn through it tingle and prickle. She paid it no mind and began kneading and pinching dough into little cups for tarts. As she filled each with sweet jam to be baked in, she softly sang that rhyme she had learned when she was a child-- 'The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts all on a summer's day; the Knave of Hearts, he stole the tarts, and took them quite away....'
"Oh, dear, I'm fresh out of jam," she said to the head cook, dusting the flour off her hands on her apron. "Mind if I dip down into the store room to get some more?"
"Oh, no, please, go ahead," the cook said, too busy bustling about and thinking excitedly about the upcoming two-day vacation to notice that there was plenty of jam still in the cupboard. "Take as much as your arms can carry!"
Nana curtsied and hurried out of the room. She had to make her way in to see what Tweedle Dee was up to....
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