Finished editing the mini-chapter I was working on yesterday, and have split the next one and had a few rounds on the first half. Unfortunately my pruning shears seem blunt, as I haven't managed to cut out either of the bigger bits I was gunning for, and it's actually longer now than it was before I started shortening it. Sigh. Have a snippet of edited stuff...
The mirror seemed the best bet. ‘There,’ I said, handing over my improvised candle holder. The king’s scouts would have been proud of me. Except the thing was probably another one-off antique. Did ivory even burn? Most folk weren’t fool enough to stick the stuff near enough a flame to find out. ‘Don’t drip wax on your nice frock. And don’t knock it, whatever you do. We don’t want to find out your big sister’s let the fire premiums lapse.’ The modern commercial quarter was said to owe its existence to a hundred year old candle in a glove maker’s on The Gullet that had burned a moth hole in the old town a mile around.
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The mirror seemed the best bet. ‘There,’ I said, handing over my improvised candle holder. The king’s scouts would have been proud of me. Except the thing was probably another one-off antique. Did ivory even burn? Most folk weren’t fool enough to stick the stuff near enough a flame to find out. ‘Don’t drip wax on your nice frock. And don’t knock it, whatever you do. We don’t want to find out your big sister’s let the fire premiums lapse.’ The modern commercial quarter was said to owe its existence to a hundred year old candle in a glove maker’s on The Gullet that had burned a moth hole in the old town a mile around.