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The corporal shrugged off his pack at the top of the immobile ever-stairs’ third landing. “I’ll take up station here.”

The professor, too, dropped his pack, and after a glance at the directory map on the wall, started down the tiled path towards Maiden’s Wear. He turned, when the girl didn’t follow, and held out a hand.

“Come along, girl,” he said.

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“What about this one?” the corporal asked, holding up something frilly and pink, with an inordinate amount of bows in front of the girl.

As with the three dresses he’d picked prior, the girl looked the garment up and down, and then returned her stare to someplace that seemed to always be over the shoulder of whomever was speaking to her.

“Yeah, not particularly practical.” The corporal tossed it aside, atop the pile with the others.