Now, if I said there was no way at all that I could have anything to do with the screams coming from the upper level serving hands’ dorms, who could contest me?
After all, everyone save for a few patrolling soldiers would not even be awake at that time of night– a time during which someone would have been able to sneak in to alter the handmaiden omega Paige’s tooth powder.
And sneaking in would have required either men’s attire or something else fitted, as women’s skirts were far too heavy to move about with silently.
If it had been a woman at all, she would have had to undress to her small clothes and stockings. But what depraved soul would risk indecency in the palace for such a jest?
Then, there was the altering of tooth powder itself. It had no visual cue of anything amiss.
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