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[peerless_thayet]

Summer in Corus can be punishingly hot, especially in the enclosed banquet halls and galleries of the palace.

Thayet has taken to indulging in a morning visit to Milliways, just to slip outside and have the cool Scottish breeze dance off the lake and through her hair, cooling her down for at least a little while.

Today she takes a large glass of iced tea along and chooses a spot underneath a tree, listening to the leaves rustle above her head and the whinnies of horses turned out in the paddock.

Milliways is enchanting in the morning mist.

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[kitchen_maid]

Amy smiles. "Genuine interest and fairy-given Charm do have their uses," she says, Cheerfully.

"Thank you, Thayet. I suspect I am about to go home and talk Perry's ear off for a few days, but I think I have a much clearer idea of what we'd need to do and arrange and so on."

[peerless_thayet]

"I do hope he won't be cross with me before we've even met," Thayet teases. "But I'm glad it helped. I'll give you my mountains of notes when we return to the palace. Hopefully they will be of use."

She lifts her cup, smiling over her tea.

"You know, I was thinking while that Master of Legal History was rambling at you about the establishment of the Provost's Guard: you're the first proper friend I've brought here from..." her eyes dart to the room behind them, checking that it's clear "...Milliways." Her smile widens. "It's fun."

[kitchen_maid]

"Isn't it? I love bringing people to Ambergeldar. I notice things I'd never notice otherwise, talking to people for whom everything around them is new."

And Amy's Court is rather used to the Queen's odd friends materializing from the ether.

"I'd love for you to come visit some time.

"Certainly once there's a university to show you, but before then, too, if you'd like."

Because it's likely to take a little while to pull together.

Her smile wrinkles up her nose. "The Master of Legal History did ramble a fair bit, didn't he? I'm reasonably certain he reached his point in the end, but not completely."

[peerless_thayet]

"I would," Thayet smiles.

Perhaps Jon and Perry would also enjoy getting to know someone with similar royal responsibilities.

"At least we aren't required to attend his lectures," she notes, "though he looked rather hopeful that we would. It would be entertaining to see his face, should you tell him why exactly you've no need of our detailed history."

The thought very nearly makes the Queen giggle.

"Yes, a rather successful day, I think." Holding her tea higher, she toasts, "To the universities. Long may they fulfill our hopes for them."

[kitchen_maid]

"To universities," Amy repeats.

"And to friends.

"Wherever we are so fortune as to find them."