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[balletrat]

*Meg doesn't know how long it takes her until she reaches the imposing edifice of the palace; it feels like an eternity, of course, but that's only to be expected. It can't have been as long as it felt like, because she is still, to a certain extent, visible - and so she tells herself for the fiftieth or a hundredth time not to worry, they will get there in time, as she runs straight through a side wall and turns to the first, extremely startled person she sees passing by.*

I need to talk to Max or Michael - whoever's closer - quickly -