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[kitchen_maid]

Amy brought her lastest list of Gifts to Write Thank You Notes For with her to the House of Arch, and settled at a desk in the common room. The change of scenery helps, a little, but she's starting to think that if she has to come up with one more way to say "Thank you for the hideous silver punch bowl I neither need nor want," she'll scream

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[called_lioness]

"Hullo, Amy. Reading anything good?" she asks as she enters and sets an arm load of books down, herself.

[kitchen_maid]

"A whole book that has absolutely nothing to do with weddings," she says, cheerfully. "Hello, Lucy. How are you?"

[called_lioness]

"Sounds like it must be fascinating, then," she laughs and comes over. "Looking for breeches that fit and are the style I need. I could ask Bar, but I'm certain there must be a pair already here somewhere. Other than being annoyed with that, quite fine. You?"

[kitchen_maid]

"I have to write another sixteen or so thank you notes to reach my daily goal, but I think I've earned a break. I'm quite looking forward to the end of April. But mostly very very well."

[called_lioness]

"I'm very, very glad to hear that," she grins. "And if you've already written half as many as I suspect you have, I feel a break is sorely needed."

[kitchen_maid]

"Hundreds," says Amy. "Thought not all today. But how many punch bowls do they imagine I need? And whatever do they think people are using to serve punch in Ambergeldar now? Horse troughs? I have forty-one, Lucy, and each is more ridiculous than the last.

"Forty-one."

[called_lioness]

"...You could put tea in them?" she offers.

[kitchen_maid]

Amy laughs. "I'll suggest it," she promises.

"I'm threatening to use them as flower pots, but only to Perry."

[called_lioness]

"You could get Mary Lennox to help you plant them."

[kitchen_maid]

"I could," says Amy, suddenly stuck with a vision of rather a lot of very improbable planters turning up, say, around the stables.

"Would you like to come to the wedding, Lucy?"

[called_lioness]

"Of course," she laughs. "I should like that very much."

[kitchen_maid]

"Then you may consider yourself officially, if informally, invited," says Amy.

"The wedding itself will probably be very grand and very proper and a little dull, but the ball afterwards should be fun."

[called_lioness]

"Well, royal weddings tend to be," she says reasonably, "and I look forward to it anyway."

[kitchen_maid]

"I'm looking forward to being married. The wedding is just the only way to do that."

A pause.

"I talked to Eustace the other day."

[called_lioness]

"Did you?" Lucy says conversationally. "And what did Eustace have to say?"

[kitchen_maid]

"I think he's a little . . . unsettled, perhaps, by your recent . . . resurrection?