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WE TWO MAY MEET
Tanya Huff
MAGDELENE was beside herself when she woke that first morning home
from VenitciaтАФwhich wasn't really surprising as she'd never been much of
a morning person. If truth be told, she was more of a midafternoon, heading
into cocktail hour kind of a person.
What was surprising was that the self she was beside appeared to be
snoring

Mistress?" Kali's red eyes widened as two wizards walked into the
kitchenтАФidentical but for the fact that one had her thick chestnut hair pulled
back into a tight bun and seemed to be wearing an outfit in which all the items
not only complemented each other but covered her from neck to knees. The
demon housekeeper turned to the other wizard, whose hair fell in the usual
messy cascade and who was wearing a vest and skirt in virulently opposing
shades of green. "Mistress, there are two of you."
"No." The first Magdelene crossed the kitchen and pulled a mug embossed
with the words The most powerful wizard in the world off the shelf. "There's
still only one of me. I just seem to nave gone to pieces."
Kali sighed, but said, as was expected, "Well, pull yourself together."
"Not without a cup of coffee."
'Very funny," the second Magdelene snorted. "But neither Displaced humor
nor your unseemly addiction to that beverage is getting us any closer to solving
our problem!"
"We've managed to determine that she's my unfun bits," Magdelene-one
informed the demon, sinking into a chair and reaching for a muffin.
"I hope you're not having butter on that!"
"Also my nagging, uptight bits."
"Mistress, how did this happen?"
Magdelene-one shrugged, spreading butter liberally on the muffin. "Beats
the heck out of me. She was there when I woke up; large as life and twice as
tidy."
"And I can't seem to get her to care," growled Magdalene-two through
clenched teeth. "We must find out who did this to us and why."
"It's too hot to care." One stuck her foot out into a patch of sunlight and
grinned down at the shadow of her bare toes on the tile floor.
"Mistress, if there is a wizard powerful enough to do this . . ."
"What difference does it make? I mean, really? It's been done."
"You see? You see what I've had to put up with?" Two glared down at
her double. "Well, fine. I don't need youтАФI was only including you in the
process to be thorough. I can get the answers on my own." Pivoting on one
well-shod heel, she stomped out of the room, the door slamming behind her.
 "What a bitch," One snorted.
"Mistress, if she is a part of you . . ."
"Then I'm well rid of her."
The door swung open hard enough to crash against the wall. "What have
you done to my house!"
Magdelene-one sighed, reaching for another muffin. "What do you mean,
your house? Try, my house."
"The tower is missingl"