Myra always started work three hours before the work day officially
began. Given how late his duties often required he stay, he spent his life
perpetually sleep deprived, but that could be said of everyone in the office,
from the High King and Consort all the way down to the servant responsible for
cleaning up at night.
He'd been more than a little miffed when High Consort Allen
started showing up two hours before everyone else, because he counted on those
three hours of solitude to keep him on schedule and even on rare occasion ahead
of schedule. The last thing he needed was to spend his valuable alone time
tending to the High Consort.
From The Festival Prize of the High Secretary.
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