The Gossiping Ladies at Court:"Dears, did you hear? I heard from one of Lady Jenna's maid-servants, that a fairy stole her baby and replaced it with a horrible creature!"
"Poor, poor creature. Jenna, I mean. Such a lovely thing."
"A changeling! Its our new Lord Marshall, that Sir Cassius, I tell you! Didn't a dragon or some such creature attack his manor at Tisbury a few years back? It seems the Good Neighbors have taken a liking to him."
"Heaven forbid! Oh, poor, poor Jenna. Such a kind thing."
"I say they should drown the thing and send it back to Hell! The baby, that is, not Sir Cassius."
[a twitter of sly laughter]
"I hear he's left Salisbury, with some other lords on a quest to find his real son, Germain. That they've gone to the Forest Sauvage!"
[hushed silence]
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