Rue had a system.

Every evening, before the house went quiet, she made her rounds.

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Bo was a Doberman, sleek and serious, with a glossy black coat and a very small bow tie clipped to his collar — because paws cannot tie knots, and Bo knew that.

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Otis was a big, broad-shouldered truck with a flatbed that could rise and fall like a slow, steady breath — up with a whirr, down with a hiss. That was his job. That was his gift.

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Nell lived beside a misty lake, in a little hollow where the reeds grew thick and the mud smelled of rain and old wood.

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High up in the mountains, where the snow sits on the peaks like white hats, there was a gem mine called Copper Ridge.

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Grunt the Brachiosaurus had one job. Stand still. Hold the ornament box.

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Princess Mira had very important work to do.

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Marble was on the armchair when she heard it stop.

Click-click-click, the study had been saying for the last hour — Theo typing something, probably his homework, probably with one finger like he…

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Biscuit was a Basset Hound with a very important nose and ears so long they swept the ground like two little brooms. Sniff, sniff, sniff.

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Princess Rosalind ran the royal bakery, and she was the best cake decorator in the whole kingdom.

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