How... disappointing, citing an injury as a reason to get out of such an important duty as helping with limes. It wasn't like he'd even been directly [i]hit[/i] by anything and then he was resting in some fashion for the entire journey back. Meanwhile, she'd gone to battle with a spear through her stomach, which was more than a little inconvenient from a range of movement perspective, but it had been so long since she was alive that the paladin wasn't entirely sure what pain was like for normal people any more. 

Fortunately, Julianna had hit upon an avenue that hadn't even entered her mind: getting servants to come along and help with transporting the load. This [i]more[/i] than compensated for Tiral's choice to be of no use in the preparations for this ball and possibly gave her some assistance in preparing the marmalade.

"Whilst you round up your servants, I will gather money to actually pay for this," Tyaethe stated, belatedly realising that she ought to actually gather some manner of payment rather than showing up in armour and saying that she would pay after the ball. Being charged with extortion would be a poor idea...

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