“Ah, well,” Elias agreed; that’d be plenty of practice to serve him for next season, as long as he didn’t crash it on its first outing or anything.

“In that case, I’ll get to work on it as soon as possible,” he added brightly. It had been a relatively painless meeting, and that always made Elias quietly less begrudging than he might feel towards the finicky, impossible-to-satisfy sort of customer. “Can’t have you stranded for too long, can we?”

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