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Leanne Shawler's avatar

Where did he find his shirt plate mail,for the wedding? And no suspicion about the sleepy time drink as Joseph calls it? Ok, continuing to binge read…

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Brian Heming's avatar

He's a (cover story) merchant. He bought it at one of the towns while doing the buy-low-sell-dear routine. It's not clear whether the ring was in his goods or he purchased it, but my thought it is--purchased it.

I'm sure he was suspicious but at this point he has no choice but to play along.

(These less interesting details intentionally excluded from the prose under the Strunkian theory of "Make every word count." As usual, authorial headcanon is much more detailed than what is shown.)

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Joseph L. Wiess's avatar

Treachery and Betrayal, fitting for the Dark Citadel. Maybe shouldn't have drank that sleepy-time drink.

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Brian Heming's avatar

Yeah, but I don't see that they had a choice, two versus infinity soldiers and all that. They could've always just gotten clubbed over the head and dragged to a cell; the governor is just being a smooth jerk here. And minimizing bodily harm, I suppose, which might be important for whatever he plans for them.

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TheRanting PokeGirl's avatar

Someone put something in their drinks!

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