Silhouine spends the night underneath her little pantry-tucked bed, fearful of dragons, with a cat who alternates between dozing and jerking itself awake to bury startled claws in her back.<\/p>\n
In the morning she knocks next door, at Mlle. Sunanza’s, to find that she’s not the only apprentice left to literally mind the shop.<\/p>\n
“There are a bunch of us stuck here, owners hied out to the country,” glowers Dulap, over buttered dumplings. “We’re having a bonfire in the square tonight. Want to come?”<\/p>\n
“I’d like that,” Silhouine smiles.<\/p>\n
They don’t burn the shop down that night. That happens later.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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