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[color=aa0505]"Maybe not required,"[/color] The knight said smoothly, watching the unholy creature begin to burn and dwindle. [color=aa0505]"But perhaps you might have handled this a little more cleanly."[/color]

With the danger's passing something of Nicomede's ease went with it. Familiarity was a blade with two edges. He knew this setting and its rules, and that knowledge came with awareness that his place in it was changed. Uncertain. He knew the rules, how the game was played, but [i]not[/i] from this angle. Covering for it wasn't difficult. He'd had years to practice. The same cuffs he rolled up to work came back down with a few quick motions, buttoned properly around his wrists and the wrinkles twitched smooth. 

[color=aa0505]"A broom, si?"[/color] Nico motioned to the burning creature, and the mess their impromptu exorcism had left behind. The quiet question was addressed to the Crown Knights, or perhaps to the court mage, but it seemed open-ended anyway. [color=aa0505]"I think the scene is distressing enough without leaving the ash to settle where the princesses can see it."[/color]

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