Funny Fantasy by Gail Carriger

Author:Gail Carriger [Shvartsman, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UFO Publishing
Published: 2016-04-09T04:00:00+00:00

"DO YOU THINK it's enough of a service?" I asked Aunt Twill that evening through a small cup of tea.

Her image wiggled in the brown liquid. Normally tea talking is a delicate spell requiring both parties use bone china, Earl Grey, and silver stirring spoons. But Aunt Twill had a contract with the tea daemons that allowed her conversational access (between the afternoon hours of half-past three and five o'clock, of course) to any cup in the kingdom. It's a naiad gossip thing.

My aunt extracted a small gudgeon fish from her hair and ruminated. "I doubt teaching a princess acrobatics constitutes proper repayment of an honor debt. Though it is a nice thing to do. Why would she want to learn, do you think? It certainly isn't normal princess-y behavior."

I shrugged. "She isn't a normal princess. More like a normal dairymaid. Poor thing."

Aunt Twill nodded. "Plain ones happen sometimes. I'll do a little research and get back to you on the tumbling. Until then, I'd proceed as though this were not the answer."

I sighed. "Very well, Aunt Twill."

"Oh, and niece," I looked up, "that's a hideous hat."

I stuck my tongue out at her and lifted up the bone china cup. Her face wavered in the brown liquid as I drank down the tea. Fairies invented tea, did you know that? It was one of our best collective spells, until the daemons stole it, and humans got in on the idea. Still, it explains my Child Wishes: baked goods go very well with tea.

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