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Not too fast, called Raoul. Let's not scare anyone. His majesty said with all deliberate speed! chirped the courier. He flinched under Lerant's glare. That's how we're doing it, Raoul told him. Deliberately.
Tamora Pierce
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Tamora Pierce
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
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