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"Hmm," says Princess. "Very well. You can hang around my court and whenever I'm doing things that don't require privacy you can hang around me."

"I'll need to come and go to forage."

"My court can feed you."

"I'm sure they can. I'll need to come and go to forage." This is a mortal she's dealing with.

"As you like, then."
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(Secret giggles again.)

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"What are you? I'm a leaflet," Promise says to "Maria".

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"Oh. I don't know," she says. "I'm the only me I've met."

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"You didn't start knowing?"

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"No-o. Should I have?"

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"Is this relevant?" asks the Princess.

"No, probably not," says Promise, still looking at Maria. "If you're going to be in here a while and I'm supervising you is there a chair I can have?"

"Maria, go get her a chair," says the Princess.
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So she goes and gets Promise a chair and brings it back and puts it down for her. It is a Maria-sized chair; Promise is not quite Maria-sized but she's certainly closer to that than to a sunshine tepal.

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Promise sits in it and watches the Princess.

Later Promise goes out foraging, and comes back when the Princess is asleep.
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"Maria" is not asleep.

"Hi, Promise."
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"Hi, Maria. That's a strange nickname."

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"My first master gave me it."

Technically she isn't forbidden to talk about Jeff; she usually doesn't anyway. But usually people don't ask about her nickname.
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"You didn't pick your own?"

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"He was a mortal and he had all mortal friends so he called me a mortal name so they wouldn't know I was a fairy."

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"This... sounds like a story."

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"I guess it is one. Do you want me to tell it?"

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"If you don't mind. We're a little too far from where I live for me to commute, so I have to pass the time, but I don't mean to pry."

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"I don't mind," she says.

"When I started, I was in a little field not far from here, and there was a mortal in front of me. He said somebody'd told him not to eat any food here and he wanted to know why, so I told him about vassals, and he said that was a shame because I wouldn't ever get to try his mortal candy, he said it was so good that mortals eat it even though it kills some of them. And I knew he was lying but I was a minute old and I hadn't ever had candy before, so I took the candy. And he took me home and kept me, and made me clean his house and cook his food and have sex with him whenever he wanted, and he wouldn't let me talk to anyone or leave his house."
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"I'm sorry that happened to you. Is the Princess better?"
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"She's his niece. He gave me to her when he got sick and was going to die. She asked me what I wanted, and I said I wanted to go back to the fairy realm and be free. She decided that she wanted to be a fairy princess instead of letting me go. But she doesn't rape me and she doesn't make me smile when I'm not happy, so she's not as bad as Jeff."

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Promise nods slowly.

"I had an awful master. But he gave me away to someone else who didn't want to keep me." Which is something of an understatement all around.
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"That's good," she says. "I'm glad. The Princess isn't ever going to give me away, though."

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"Why not? Why the creekpearls and not you?"

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"Mm. Why do you call yourself Promise?"

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"When I started I made a promise to myself."

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