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p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"After dinner, Rose escorted the telmarine warrior to the coat of arms. "Narnian weapons are so different to telmarine ones," Catalina said as she inspected the armoury "Our weapons are more curved, Queen Susan said they're similar to Spanish weapons " "Oh?" Rose exclaimed, "Susan taught you about my world" "A little" the warrior replied, "The concept is still a little confusing for me." "I couldn't agree more with you," Rose laughed "At home, I could walk around all day in shorts and a t-shirt but here I have to keep wearing these silly dresses" The telmarine arched an eyebrow "What are these shorts you speak off?" "oh, they're like pants but shorter," Rosemary said, indicating where her shorts usually finished around her mid-thigh. Catalina laughed "those are undergarments not pants" "Not where I come from," Rosemary giggled./p
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p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"After dinner, Rose escorted the telmarine warrior to the coat of arms. "Narnian weapons are so different to telmarine ones," Catalina said as she inspected the armoury "Our weapons are more curved, Queen Susan said they're similar to Spanish weapons " "Oh?" Rose exclaimed, "Susan taught you about my world" "A little" the warrior replied, "The concept is still a little confusing for me." "I couldn't agree more with you," Rose laughed "At home, I could walk around all day in shorts and a t-shirt but here I have to keep wearing these silly dresses" The telmarine arched an eyebrow "What are these shorts you speak off?" "oh, they're like pants but shorter," Rosemary said, indicating where her shorts usually finished around her mid-thigh. Catalina laughed "those are undergarments not pants" "Not where I come from," Rosemary giggled./p
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