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It's been almost four months, in Ambergeldar, since Amy came into the bar. Four rather tiring months, really, spent criss-crossing the country so she could be introduced to a populace. But that all ended last week, in early October, almost two months early, and she's back, looking about for her friends.

The slight curve to her stomach could be the result of the fashion of her dress, or even a trick of the light. But given the way she's smiling . . . it's probably not.

Amy is back. And she has News.

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"Oh, and that debate could take weeks. It's of vital importance to the future of Ambergeldar, after all."

Cimorene spent a great deal of her childhood thinking up ways to upset her father's councillors. This is just as fun.

"Well, yes, given the possibility of the children inheriting the freckles . . . horrors! No one would ever marry a princess with freckles."

"What a catastrophy that would be!" cries Cimorene in mock alarm. "Someone should let Perry know. I'm sure he's frightfully concerned about the whole thing."

"My dear Cimorene, surely you are not implying that the Council of Ambergeldar has not already drawn up a report on the subject and formally presented it at a meeting that took fully four hours, are you?"

Because truthfully? They have.

"You're not kidding, are you." Says Cimorene sympathetically, "That must have been dreadful."

Cimorene is about as close to a politician as one can get in her world, and even she can't stand to listen to that much nonsense for four hours straight.

"I wonder that you and Perry were able to keep from laughing at them."

"Perry hasn't talked me into going to Council meetings yet. Or insisted that I do. I just read the report later and laughed a lot.

"Perry, I understand, gets though that sort of meeting by playing tic-tac-toe with himself on scraps of blotting paper."

"That sounds utterly thrilling," Cimorene deadpans.

"I never thought I'd be quite so grateful that the dragons have almost no head for beaurocracy."

"I think it's on the list of things to scandalize them by changing later. Everyone just got so used to running things for Perry when he was little that they haven't quite figured out that he's grown up in the last fourteen years. And when they do, well, I think I'm going to wind up in the meetings, but I think they're going to be much shorter.

"How do dragons manage things?"

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