Oh, please. Penelope is not a child. Also, she's impeccably clean.
She picks up A Brief History of Goblin Economics, 1066-1688 once again (it had made excellently distracting reading her first time Bound) and turns her attention back to Acceptable Penalties for Usury.
She wouldn't be bad-looking if she got rid of that dress. There's nothing so frustrating as potential wasted.
Oh I see how it is. Tryin' to supress the younger generation, is it? Well, it's not going to work, see? Ace is the very icon of rebellious youth. Nevermind that she hasn't been a teenager for over half a century. She stands true to her roots, and never backs down!
In other words, Ace isn't looking where she's going, and runs smack-dab into a positively filthy wedding dress inhabited by her long-lost-cross-universe-and-canon-twin.
Salieri is put off for a second, but he's spent half his life amongst nobles, though he'd found Vienna one of the less haughty courts of Europe
"A pleasure to make your acquaintance, my lady. I am Antonio Salieri, dare I say, Maestro Salieri. Tell me, have they composed songs for you? What a question, of course they have, ma donna."
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No, really.
... Well, except for the fact that she is.
How can any self-respecting person wear such a horrible dress?
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Children.
Always getting under foot.
And so very very dirty, as well.
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She picks up A Brief History of Goblin Economics, 1066-1688 once again (it had made excellently distracting reading her first time Bound) and turns her attention back to Acceptable Penalties for Usury.
She wouldn't be bad-looking if she got rid of that dress. There's nothing so frustrating as potential wasted.
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Often this results in her using it up.
Her tattered skirts brush against Penelope's table as she passes.
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Well, that's not right, actually. She has lots of purpose. But she's still not like Serpentine. For one, she's not old.
Er.
That's not right either. But her clothes are in style!
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Fine. They are long-lost twins separated at birth. Happy now?
Anyway, where were we?
Right. Ace, moving (with purpose) towards the Bar, on a direct intercept course. Batten down the hatches folks.
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Serpentine merely continues walking--though striding would be a more accurate term.
Or sweeping grandly, if you were in that sort of mood. Which this particular lady never is.
To put it another way, Serpentine makes no effort to step aside.
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In other words, Ace isn't looking where she's going, and runs smack-dab into a positively filthy wedding dress inhabited by her long-lost-cross-universe-and-canon-twin.
Oi.
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"Kindly look where you're going next time."
Implicit in this is the 'and get out of the way of your betters'.
This is what happens when you spend decades terrifying everyone you meet.
It's an ugly fate.
Serpentine rather enjoys it.
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Even when it's, ahem, rather heavily disguised.
"Nobil Donna!" he greets her.
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"And?"
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"A pleasure to make your acquaintance, my lady. I am Antonio Salieri, dare I say, Maestro Salieri. Tell me, have they composed songs for you? What a question, of course they have, ma donna."
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She's still looking at him.
"Is there a purpose behind it?"
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