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"Not to pry, but what do you think would happen in the event I did cause Her offense or embarrassment?"

The Steward just looks at you. "I think you know the answer to that, too," he says in measured tones.

What you do not know, dear Steward, you think as you and Brute make your way back outside, is that I have a particular genius for envisioning the terrible consequences of failure. Excited though you are to have these orders, it would have been nice to have a bit of an outer boundary on what manner of tortures you could expect from stoking Queen Hero's displeasure. [+Melancholy]

Onward