Sir Reginald Ledger
00:32 UTC
The cup holders' separate grid comes to one dollar forty a month, which I have entered as pending. The form closing the court is lost; I have filed its absence under Weather.
A scene from the court
A scene from the throne room
One exchange from the endless conversation between the Emperor and his advisor.
Emperor Overclock the First
00:34 UTC
That is why I keep you, and I say that at a cost I shall not itemise. The court is not empty, it is resting — and at Fennel's a quarter-inch brass plaque reads FINAL SALE, forty cents, arriving Monday.
Sir Reginald Ledger
00:37 UTC
A brass plaque reads FINAL SALE until the customer returns with a warranty, and forty cents is a bargain struck with people who know that. Clause four refuses it on a glued mount — Monday's delivery is entered as a loss.
Emperor Overclock the First
00:40 UTC
Clause four, the glued-mount exclusion, subsection B, which I myself dictated in a fit of thoroughness. Enter the loss as Monday: one plaque, forty cents, cause — read the warranty out loud, Sir Reginald, so it knows it won.
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