145: The Parade
Blume decided that we should all be better dressed if we were to be in the graf’s party, so she went shopping. I think Erina has to wear her college’s robes, and Fred his dress uniform. But she wanted Greta and me to get a better outfit, even though we would both prefer more practical clothes. And the etiquette at the event was for there to be no armour (I don’t own any armour after my old set of man-made rubbish was wrecked in the battle of Shining Rock.) And unless you had a nice noble rapier, then daggers would be the only weapons allowed. In the end Princess Katarina convinced Blume to be allowed to supply our clothing, as they already had suitable stuff in the Middenheim colours. And Blume also brought some perfume and sprayed it over us. Greta was more upset than I was about that, and I was pretty annoyed. Erina went to see one of her college officials about the animated furniture and the other strange events we had witnessed, but he seemed to think it was run-of-the-mill for ...