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,.;` A Little Secret `;., She wanders through the Kugnae palace, gracefully drapped in silk and fine laces, with pearls and sapphires falling in shimmering bits of color about her face. She seems oddly melancholy, passing down each corridor in turn, the silver bells about her ankles tinkling quietly as she walks. The palace servants, or at least those who have enough seniority and discretion to be trusted, have known of her for years. Many long nights she has wandered sadly through these walls, never speaking a word to anyone. They do not attempt to speak to her.. such would be folly, as many have learned to their own dismay. Any attempt to draw her out into conversation invariably results in a lengthy trip to the palace dungeons, to reconsider the intelligence of that decision. She has never been seen by light of day, nor by visitors to the palace. Indeed, when foreign dignitaries come to call, she is nowhere to be found - though there have been strange sounds from M'hul's chambers on these nights. In fact, it is rumored that perhaps he knows her secret, for he has made many extravagant purchases of silks, laces, and fine jewelry - and even employed the service of the greatest seamstress in all of Kugnae. An effort was made to learn what the seamstress had seen, but unfortunately she could not be found.... it seems she disappeared soon after her employment with the King ended. It is too bad, really. She had the most amazing talent with needle and thread. The new seamstress is not even allowed inside the palace, instead having been given a shop within the palace grounds. Only one man has spoken this mysterious woman's name and lived to tell about it. A scruffy vagabond who wanders the streets of Buya and Kugnae, never spending the night in the same place twice. I paid a handsome sum to him one day, to learn the secret he holds so dear... and this is what he said: <b> "M'hul wears a dress." .: Shawnee | |