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It seemed that being in the favor of the Emperor, at least for the moment, had a few immediate benefits.

One of those was being in charge of the imperial bureaucrats as they searched the Library. Enrie had never been in charge of people before and she found it very educational. She had also not

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They'd been back at school for two weeks. Enrie was entirely caught up on all her classes, and Taikie was back into reading ahead by at least a week. Their Instructors had either forgiven them, or, in the case of those more nosy than fretful about academics, had stopped asking what was going o

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Elelakorra’s gaze moved to Libkazaarie and stayed there for a moment. "My protection includes you, of course. It has been a while, hasn't it?"

Libkazarrie cleared her throat uncomfortably. "It has. Honored Voice."

"None of that, Librie." Elelakorra hopped up to sit on her desk and swung her

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Silence reigned in the room for about a heartbeat, and then Lirnilalie laughed. "Ah, but nobody wants the job of sorting through the pile of food, pulling out the stinking pieces and saving the rest for porridge, do they? And it's worse when the parsnips have families and friends, when they're yo

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"Honestly, some people..." Elelakorra pulled a dart gun from somewhere in her desk and hopped up onto said desk, nimbly missing the copies of the treaty. She took aim, sighted... and then sighed. "Let her in, Tevordor, and then go get the guard. All of them. Twice."

"Ma'am?" Tevordor didn

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Enrie winced. Her friends were not actually helping her case, as much as they might think they were.

"It was..." She cleared her throat. "They did destroy or remove several books, but they were stopped in their efforts by two things: some of the information had embedded aether. It made one f

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Enrie turned to look at Gianci. Everyone else, she noticed, was doing the same.

He cleared his throat again. He was looking over their heads, not at them. "Sometimes they tell people they can't go back to the enclaves. Banish them. Some people leave on their own, sure, but sometimes... som

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The cart wasn't chasing them anymore. A peek around the edge of the wagon showed it tangled and sideways on the side of the road, their goats all happily eating feed or fighting with the harness, trying to get to the food. Three of the people from the wagon were trying to get the goats loose, p

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Sorry so late, guys! Not sure what happened to brain

Enrie was skidding toward the open trap-door, flailing for purchase. A flash of movement caught her eye and a moment later, three hands caught her - wrist, shoulder, and ankle. Enrie was yanked to a stop a hands-width from the trapdoor.

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The wagon rattled along the bridge. Kekdela had her head on her knees, one hand in Riensin's and the other in Tesdes'. Enrie clutched the bag holding her copies of the treaty carefully to herself. What would her mother do in this situation? Her father?

First, her mother would say, act the pa

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Their head of school might being blackmailed, but Enrie found herself worrying more about what to pack. "I don't have anything," she complained to her roommates, who were sleepy and not inclined to help. "I didn't bring anything..." She was being very vague about where she was going, not because

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“...and then Pieped suggested they could run interference. Which is probably why there’s this very polite wall of Estyaa House colors by the doorway. I don’t think Lady Ilonilarrona’s done with us.” Enrie spared a glance for the nicely-composed line of purple, cyan-teal, & bright red by the

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The Associate Governor made her way out of the first-years’ dorm with ill grace; unsurprising, as she did most things with ill grace. Enrie shot a nervous look at Gianci, who had been wearing a solemn expression throughout the whole ordeal.

As soon as Ilonilarrona was past them, the expression

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Enrie stared at Ilonilarrona. Behind the Associate Governor, she was pretty sure most of her dorm-mates were also staring at the woman.
Gianci, however, was chuckling. “Ma’am, I’m terribly sorry. But if you think Enerenarie here was ‘up to something’ today, well, I’m afraid you’re right.”

W

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It took them most of the evening to copy the pages. They divided up the copies and originals between them and went their separate ways, back to their dorm towers.

That left Enrie walking up the stairs to their dorm side by side with Gianci. She glanced over at him as they walked past all the o

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They took all of their bits and pieces to a quiet lab in the back of the Philosophy classroom building. There, in a room lit with the new safety lamps, they laid out everything they’d found so far, pages and notes. Saydrie pulled out some fresh paper and a pen and began transcribing everything; a

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They found Gianci and Taikie in the history section, holding an old tome whose bindings had crumbled with age, hidden off behind a pole in a far corner near the books on Empress Otyeriotanerio . The book itself was Bitrani Writings on the Early Wars, but, between two maps of Reiassan showing p

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Enrie didn’t wait until Gianci and Taiki were gone before she started searching the shelves. She’d been over many of these books before, but with Gianci’s new lullaby, they had a new direction to go in.

Saydrie was muttering to himself as he flipped through books. After a minute, he asked, “Di

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They should have been making their way back downstairs to help Taikie and Saydrie with their project, but Enrie found it was hard to work up the motivation to leave. One kiss led to another, and another one after that, until finally she sighed. The sun was beginning to set through the cupola w

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Gianci, Enrie found, was a bit hesitant about the actual idea of things. His hand hovered hear the small of her back and the other hand near her shoulder, as if he would like to touch her but was remembering, perhaps, the way she had reacted when someone else had touched her.

She scooted b

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Enrie stood took a step backwards up the stairs and smiled at Gianci. “Well, if we’re going to be in close quarters with each other — as it seems we are — maybe we could go for something a little more scenic?”

He took a step up after her. “What did you have in mind? And, ah,” he smirked playf

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Gianci cleared his throat and took a step backwards. Enrie stood up and took a step downwards, closer to him.

“So…” he offered uncertainly. “So you would have… gone down to the, that is, gone to the races with me, if you hadn’t been… otherwise occupied, um, planning to be charged with treason?

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Enrie looked at Gianci. He looked at her. There were more important things to be worried about right now, she knew. But he was between her and the exit, and Taikie was between them and leaving.

She looked over his shoulder, although there was nothing there. “I’ve been interested in you si

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“Is this your idea of a joke?” Gianci demanded. His breath was warm, brushing across the top of Enrie’s head.

“It might be Taikie’s idea of a prank,” Enrie admitted, “but I doubt it. There are far too few pipes involved.” In the dark, it wasn’t easy to find the hidden door to the cupola, and

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Finding Riensin was harder than she’d hoped it would be. He wasn’t in the dining hall, he wasn’t readily visible in the library, and he wasn't in his dorm’s common room or in his room, although his roommates gave Enrie and Taikie quite the look — before they noticed Saydrie standing with them.

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Enrie looked helplessly between Taikie and Kekdela’s retreating back. “Well.” She glanced at Saydrie, who looked a little confused and a little abashed. “Taikie, you know, Riensin…”

“I have absolutely no interest in anything involved with Riensin,” Taiki answered shortly. “None. He could fo

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“Lady Enerenerie. Can I bother you for a moment?”

Enrie was just a few feet from the Library, but she stopped at Gianci’s voice coming up behind her.

“You don’t have to call me Lady, you know.” She turned around slowly. What could he want? From the sounds of things, he didn’t need any hel

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Enrie felt stiff and angry as they left Biological Systems, but the more steps she took away from the room, the less certain she was. It could have been a misunderstanding. There was no way an instructor in the most prestigious academy in all of Calenta would encourage his students to cheat. Th

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Gianci stood up, smoothing his tunic and trousers and bowed to all three of them. “I’ll leave you to your studies. Saydrie. Think about it, all right?”

“I will,” Saydrie admitted. “I don’t want to be expelled… I don’t want to be in even more trouble.” He swallowed. “Thank you, Gianci.”

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“Has it gotten that bad?” Enrie kept her voice as quiet as Gianci was keeping his. “I mean, I knew that Darnio was unhappy here. But I didn’t imagine that it had gotten… seditious or anything.” She noticed the way that Gianci glanced at Saydrie, and found herself irritated. “Unlike you or Taiki

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They stared at the treaty, at the blank signature line that made this entire thing so much stranger. “But…” Taikie wrinkled her brow. “Why would they go to all this effort to hide a treaty that wasn’t signed? I mean, a little of it here, a little of it –”

“Shhh,” Saydrie hissed. Taikie fell

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Enrie watched Lovdyo flee the Tower, one boot still half-untied, a look of sick panic on his face.

That, she thought, had not gone as well as expected. As a matter of fact, it had gone far worse than she’d thoughtit might.

“I wonder what it is that got into him?”

Enrie looked over. Gianci,,,

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