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The Hazards of Cherry Pie
The thing about the Admonishers was no one really knew where they had all come from. That is to say, they certainly hadn’t magically appeared from a crack in the ground or fallen out of the sky or anything like that. One day there hadn’t been any and then the next there had been some. A few weeks later there were rather a lot actually, and within just a few months there were so many it felt like they had always been there.
The Czar had told the people that he had created the Order of Admonishment in order to ‘monitor and maintain Obedience, Civility and Tranquillity’, but it had been remarked upon by many that things were really altogether quite tranquil before the Admonishers had come along. Furthermore, whenever ‘Tranquillity’ was being disturbed, more ofte
