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Oscar:  For the time being, Oscar had Lazar drop off the infant with some ladies-in-waiting while he and Tinasha returned to his chambers. Glaring at the letter, Oscar let out an annoyed sigh. “Who the hell did this?”
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Tinasha:  “You don’t have any idea?” she asked.
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Oscar:  “None. I don’t recognize the handwriting, and there’s no name.” Ordinarily, someone in the castle would notice a stranger hanging around, but because of the party, there’d been tons of international visitors coming and going all night. Oscar issued an inquiry, but it turned up no useful information.
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Tinasha:  Floating up into the air, Tinasha gave a thoughtful hum. “Nowadays, both parties have to give consent before having a baby, right?”
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Oscar:  “Essentially, yeah. Men and women can drink a potion that prevents pregnancies. Were things not like that four hundred years ago?” Oscar asked.
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Tinasha:  “No, we didn’t have any concoctions like that. I read that it was invented three centuries back.”
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Oscar:  According to records from the era in which it was invented, the contraceptive potion came about as an accidental by-product during research into a cure for infertility in the eastern country of Mensanne. In modern times, it was inexpensive and readily available, meaning that far fewer unwanted children were born now than in the Dark Age. So then, how had this baby come to be abandoned?
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Tinasha:  “Oh… actually, Aurelia heard crying and was searching for the source in the courtyard,” Tinasha recalled.
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Oscar:  “She heard it? When was this?”
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Tinasha:  “Just before the party started. But there’s no record of anyone bringing an infant to the castle, is there?”
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Oscar:  “No… I guess someone hid in the crowd and snuck it in,” Oscar replied. Who would abandon a baby, and why?
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Tinasha:  Tinasha slowly revolved once in midair, pondering over that. Then she landed in front of Oscar, sweeping the long train of her dress back. “Should I hold on to the child?”
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Oscar:  “Why you? We have caretakers in the castle.”
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Tinasha:  “It could be part of some scheme. The sudden appearance and the letter seem odd,” she pointed out.
human
Oscar:  “Did you sense anything suspicious?”
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Tinasha:  “Not particularly, but we should still be cautious,” Tinasha admitted with a shrug.
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Oscar:  Perhaps she was being overly wary, but Oscar understood there was no reason to accept this at face value and suspect nothing. “In that case, that Valt guy’s probably not the one behind this,” he suggested with a tight grimace.
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Tinasha:  “Why would you say that?”
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Oscar:  “Because he knows about my curse, doesn’t he?”
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Tinasha:  “Oh! That’s right…” For whatever bizarre reason, Valt knew all sorts of secret information. He’d sent Delilah into the castle with full awareness of Oscar’s curse. If Valt was the mastermind behind the abandoned child, too, it didn’t make sense that he’d attach a letter so quickly exposed as a fake.
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Tinasha:  “So that means it’s someone else,” Tinasha mused with a frown, floating up into the air again. However, Oscar grabbed hold of the train of her gown and pulled her down.