The entirety of Larklight is a mess of planning and flowers and seating arrangements for far too many months, and Jack grows very grateful for his future brother-in-law's knack of steering them both away through the house's nooks and crannies bare minutes before a rash of wedding talk breaks out.
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Later, Myrtle will be able to reel off expertly the number of things that went wrong during the wedding - beginning with the way Ssilissa's bridesmaid dress sustained several rips from the enthusiastic lashing of her tail, and ending with the bizarre scientific tangent that her father wandered down during his toast at the reception - but Jack won't be able to remember anything beyond the way she looked when she appeared at the other end of the aisle.
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Jack has only managed to undo a third of the baffling amount of hooks and ribbons that comprise his new wife's wedding dress when Art's voice bawls something about spiders! and come quick!, accompanied by some frantic thumping on the door of the room, and Jack wonders exactly what he did to the universe to deserve this.
NOW WITH 100% FEWER RANDOM TENSE CHANGES
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Later, Myrtle will be able to reel off expertly the number of things that went wrong during the wedding - beginning with the way Ssilissa's bridesmaid dress sustained several rips from the enthusiastic lashing of her tail, and ending with the bizarre scientific tangent that her father wandered down during his toast at the reception - but Jack won't be able to remember anything beyond the way she looked when she appeared at the other end of the aisle.
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Jack has only managed to undo a third of the baffling amount of hooks and ribbons that comprise his new wife's wedding dress when Art's voice bawls something about spiders! and come quick!, accompanied by some frantic thumping on the door of the room, and Jack wonders exactly what he did to the universe to deserve this.