"But did you know he's married now?" Tiny asked. "To a girl named Lidja."
Emma and Dexy looked at Revin reproachfully.
"And then there's his #polyandry with the Queen too."
Now Revin looked truly scandalized, but Tiny was unrepentant: "I saw how she looks at you."
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"You've been down here in this stinking rathole for days, Revin," Tiny said. "Have you made any progress?"
"It's starting to get loose."
"You've got a #screw loose," she growled. "Here, let me."
Three deft swings with her powerful shoulders and the grate screeched free.
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Revin, well-concealed, watched while the guard grabbed Rachel's face. He ran his thumb across her lips, while he smirked. She twisted her face angrily out of his grasp, leaving a smear of #powder on his gloves. He backhanded her, knocking her to the floor, stunned.
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"I was given no choice," Rachel said, acidly. "Married off to a yokel in this backwater. And now I've become a virtual prisoner in my home."
"But you're running a terrible risk. These people are dangerous."
"Things can't get worse."
"Oh, but they can," Revin said.
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Revin spent hours writing a detailed report for the Baron summarizing what they'd learned from questioning his brother. Then, while munching on a sandwich that Melody brought him, he did the laborious encryption, using the book they'd borrowed from Bess.
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The girls emerged & struck a pose to deafening shouts of excitement, a roar of applause, & endless flashes of photographers. David was always stunned at how a gaggle of chattering little girls became the Better Angels the moment they hit the red #carpet.
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Revin sat on a high branch in the great chestnut tree in the park. Watching guards come and go from the armory, he made notations in a leather-bound journal that had a raven — or possibly a crow — on the cover. Then he saw a face he recognized instantly.
"Jackpot!"
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"We need to get the girls under cover," Tiny said. "The Inn isn't safe. And there are gangs that #snatch women off the street."
"We're too many for my room," Revin said.
"I know a place," Melody said. "The library has an off-site book repository. Let's take them there."
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"The guard told me, 'To get your #tarts out, you have to pay,'" Tiny said. "They want one reggie each. And I don't have it."
Revin went to his trunk, pulled the trick rivet, removed the concealed slat of wood, and extracted 12 reggies from his hoard.
"Let's go," he said.
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"At first, it was #patriotic fervor," Melody said. "But it quickly descended into nationalistic jingoism. Now it's just all-out terror."
"They're stripping women of their rights," Tiny said. "And for people like us, it's even worse."
Melody looked at Tiny & Revin afresh.
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