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“Coup de grace” is the original spelling anyway.

Napping together with one’s feline companion is generally a good idea.

Hope would definitely know, and he knows that Hope is now hanging around Tedd.

What means “for a game of soldiers”? And the very idea of restraining Our Overlords is rank Communism! So sayeth Our Overlords.

877-CASH-NOW

Given that the maids were only initially authorized for aggression level 1, and did not escalate until Grace had dispelled one of them, Voltaire is trying to intimidate our protagonists rather than inflict physical harm on them. He also had them declare their allegiance to him by name, so that our protagonists would know that he is behind this.

I am assuming the “mask” is a surface persona (or “character”) that Jay is presenting, like an actor in a role, and not a physical mask that she had over her face, and we are only seeing it as such for illustrative purposes.

Yes—you can march to anything which goes one-two or one-two-three-four, but not so easily to something which goes one-two-three.

“Go for” as in want to become, or “go for” as in want to date? Because there are a not-insignificant number of boys who would think that the shy girl is cute and would want to date.

Anything in 4/4 time can be marched to if you get the tempo right.

In the sky, with diamonds?

Purr therapy is always nice. One of my cats will come and knead on me and purr for a while at least once per night when I am in bed.

The phone calls are not going unanswered while Serena goes on break, so that implies that at least two people are scheduled on every shift. It also seems to be a 24 hour hotline, which means a minimum of four shifts to cover all 168 hours in the week without needing constant overtime. This implies a pool of 8-12 operators at minimum.

I had always figured that it was simply a “might makes right” thing, since Royals are supposed to be the most powerful Mages. If it’s a “scam”, then perhaps not all Royals are more powerful at magic than the strongest non-Royals, as the propaganda would claim, and thus some Royals are just paper tigers.

My cats appear to type in Basque.