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    They do their best to make their peace unpeaceful. They squabble like hens, clucking and scratching, pecking at one another for little reason. She’s never known someone so adept with a jab or a jape, capable of mixing fondness and scorn so seamlessly. At first it had angered her beyond all measure. She rose to his bait every time, until she was red-faced and impotent with fury at his gall, his temerity. She’d been treated as a queen for too long, it occurs to her now; she’d known how to deal with worship, with love, with anger and opposition, with criticism, even hatred. What she hadn’t known was how to be teased.

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