part 9

After about a week Hazel had seen what felt like most of the city without getting any closer to finding the missing prince. At least, she didn't think she'd gotten any closer to finding him - she supposed it was possible that she'd passed him on the street or sat next to him in a pub or even talked to him without knowing it. She'd talked to a lot of people, although some of those conversations were on the order of "I'm really sorry my dog scared your horse or tried to steal your sausage or jumped all over you and made you drop the load of laundry you were carrying...." It was just that Toast was so excited about all the people and animals and food in the city, all the new sights and smells and hey, look, pigeons!

Hazel kept him on a very short leash. It was either that or lock him in her room while she was out, and since she was gone all day that didn't seem very fair to him.

( She did have to leave him in the rooming house so she could visit the public bath, though. )

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