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- Mrs. Veliociraptor was having Mrs. Utahraptor over for some incredibly
- pleasant afternoon tea. The scones were fresh and smelled of blueberries
- and strife and the sugar-cubes were just old enough that they gave off the
- most delicate moaning noise when separated.
- "Rather afraid the mice got to the cake. Left it on the lower shelves
- by mistake."
- "Oh, bother!" Mrs. Utahraptor replied. "That was the cake you were telling
- Mrs. Pterodactyl about, weren't you? A post-structuralist screed with a
- frosting of hedge funds?"
- "No. I made that cake last month for the widow of ol' Mrs. Smilodon, rest
- her soul. No, this one was a long brown one--hazelnuts, cinnamon, and
- mondegreens of songs you heard from your parents' room when you were
- young and have never heard since."
- "Mrs. Deionychus has a good one. It's fear, hanging cadence and possible
- lovers who have forgotten your face and whose sudden unexpected appearance
- on the street drowns you in a flood of possible realities just out of
- reach of a time you can barely remember."
- "Ooh, that *was* a good one. I liked her almond, too."
- They talked for a while longer, but before long their speech was
- mathematical symbols, so who knows what they were saying for sure?
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