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Once all the guests had left and the juniors had gone to their rooms, Master Jangon remarked, “That went very well, didn’t it? They all will be talking about it for weeks, and my sister will have to invite us over soon.” He was in a good mood.
“I’m sorry about putting ‘ART’ on the cake, Gim, but it worked out fine in the end. I thought it was great fun.” She looked at her daughter. “I think you had the most fun of all.”
Ellery turned to Art. “I think we both got in the best shots we could.”
“Yes you did. You took turns turning bright red.” Her mother grinned at them.
Ellary excused herself, and asked Art, “Can you help my parents for a bit? I’ll be back in a couple of minutes.”
Quite a while later, when they had almost finished cleaning up, Ellary made her entrance. She was wearin
