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I was glad the woman had us land somewhere out of sight and then walk into the throne room. I feared that anything else would have resulted in my total embarrassment given how terribly I'd almost fallen.
The palace was nothing like I'd expected it to be, but everything I wanted it to be. There were flowers everywhere, filling the air with their sweet scent, and livening up the place with the vibrant colours.
I walked a pace or two behind the woman, not wanting to get in her way as she took us down a lot of twisting and turning corridors. If I was going to stay here, then I'd need to work on an internal map of sorts so I didn't get lost. But, after the streets I'd used to live on, that shouldn't be too hard. I'd had a lot of practice.
We approached the throne room, and the woman aske
