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LILYBLACK (She unobtrusively speaks to several people at the castle, giving out that she is a pilgrim come to gaze upon King Beresfor’s famous vase, “Peace of Mind.” Most look at her blankly, but finally, she meets a furniture maker who tells her that she has no more chance of seeing that vase then he has of marrying Princess Verloren. He knows, for the king hired him to make a special table to rest the vase upon. Questioning him, she finds that he still has some chips of the wood that he made the table of. She unobtrusively grabs one, and heads out of the castle to an abandoned house she had noted earlier. For the next few nights, passerby see strange lights and smell odd odors, while different voices whisper, hiss, or shriek. Finally, she proudly gazes on a new portal stone. After readying herself and burning the house, she utilses the lens. She suddenly appears in Beresfor’s locked, guarded, trapped chamber, deep within the castle. She sees the vase, removes the traps around it, wraps it in the velvet that it rests on, and, as alarms are sounding. She instantly reappears in Sir Bors’ office, bearing the vase.
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