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Annie is on her trike on her way to school.
This van labeled HAZARDOUS MATERIALS is also on its way to school.
The van hits a patch of black ice. It goes spinning, it turns over, it slices itself open on a wrought-iron fence with spikes, and it disgorges boxes which smash open on the pavement. Some of them skitter clear into the slush.
Some of them - along with most of the van - land on Annie.
There is a whirl of bewildering pain and confusion -
- and she falls to the ground, injured and in more kinds of discomfort beyond that and moaning.
She slowly starts to heal before the eyes of her sole witness.
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She does. She gets to snuggle Stalas and every so often he signs 'look at me' and she can see the way he smiles at her.
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And more engineering with Caridin, and then back to the palace through the old alternate routes from when he was a child, whereby he successfully acquires a change of clothes without getting accosted by any noble hunters, and then back to Caridin's house again to snuggle up with Annie.
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And eventually he has things to do and she has a Dagna to go bring to meet Caridin.
As she nears the stairs, a woman calls out to her: "Hey! Aren't you that human?"
The stranger snorts. "The one Prince Stalas found in a cave, I mean."
"Then maybe you can tell me why the fuck he's marrying you," she says, crossing her arms.
"Sure he does," says the probably-a-noble-hunter, "but why? Is it for money? I hadn't heard House Aeducan was that deep in the hole."
"That's a relief. So what is it? Does he have a thing for tall skinny girls? I guess that would make sense." She studies Annie for a moment and then adds, definitively, "He doesn't love you."