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Even allowing for the fact that the pub's interior was poorly lit and filled with pipe smoke, Astra knew that her difficulty in breathing must be the main reason why everything seemed so dim and seemed to have a slight reddish tinge. The corset only permitted her to take shallow breaths, which meant that she had to breathe twice as fast as usaual if she wasn't to pass out.
She saw that the pinball tournament must have finished, for there was nobody using Princess Exotica, the strangely named pin-table. In a corner of the room, she was just able to make out Lord Fred, with a pint tankard in his hand. And he was talking to Sir Toby! She made her way over to them as quickly as she could, which wasn't very. Not only would walking too fast make her even more short of breath but the corset constricted her too much for her to take anything other than very small steps. How could women in this land survive if they had to wear such instruments of torture? As she came close enough to listen to their conversation, she was startled to hear Fred say to Sir Toby: "You have the most beautiful blue eyes I've ever seen." He was flirting with him! Not only was that shocking in itself - Lord Fred had seemed so butch and she had been sure that he fancied her - but she viewed it as a betrayal. She still had her sword (originally Fred's), so the only question seemed to be which of the faithless pair she should slay first.
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