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Chapter 23 by Artican Artican

Will you play fair?

Cheat to win.

You run through the various queens and princesses you can think of, "Queen Elizabeth? Queen Victoria? Princess Di? Princess Margaret? Queen Mary? Princess Peach?" Everyone one of your answers is rejected. Candace gives you another clue by wrapping a red ribbon around your neck and handing you an axe. You quirk your eyebrow at this, even more confused. By now, you feel the ticking of the stop watch steadily working it way to the 60 second mark. You don't know how long you've taken already and don't want to lose.

You secretly wish for the answer. Amina's eyes widen, then narrow before returning to normal. You feel she's a little disappointed in your inability to play by the rules. Despite this, she provides the answer for you in an image in your head. You see yourself in the princess outfit. The axe morphs into a guillotine and slices through your neck where the red ribbon is attached. You perk up, "Mary Antoinette!"

"Yes!" Candace shouts out, "I was afraid you wouldn't get that one!"

You breath a sigh of relief as Stacy stops the timer. "30 seconds!" she announces. "Wow, that was fast!"

"Well, I got good clues..." you lie.

"It would have been more obvious if there was cake around," Candace laments.

"So now who goes?" Beth asks, suddenly eager to keep playing. Maybe she has a competitive drive in her; which would explain the extents she's gone to succeed in the previous challenges.

"Let's continue in the same order, to let those who just went recover," Candace says, obviously not wanting to go again right away.

"Alright, that's us, Stacy," Amina says as she strips to her underwear. There is an edge to her voice that makes you a little uneasy.

"Sure thing, partner," Stacy replies as she hands the stopwatch back to Candace and picks a random card. With the name in hand, Stacy heads over to the dress-up trunks and sifts through the remaining items. "Ok, I think I got this..." she announces.

"Three, two, one, go!" Candace calls out as she starts the time.

Stacy throws a black gown onto Amina and then runs over to the vacuum you'd brought out to clean up the spill Beth made on Lynn, shoving that between Amina's legs.

"Wicked Witch of the West from Wizard of Oz!" Amina calls out.

"Fifteen seconds!" Candace announces.

"Yeah, partner!" Stacy cries out, high-fiveing the petite redhead. Amina gives you a quick, knowing glance. You let her have knowledge of pop culture, but would that have been enough to figure that out so quickly? Could Amina have known all the answers without your help and was just playing coy the whole time? You contemplated this as Lynn returns from her shower wrapped in a towel with another towel around her head.

"What's the score?" Lynn asks.

"Riley and Candace did theirs in thirty seconds. We just finished ours in fifteen!" Stacy reported proudly.

"Jeez, what, did you guys cheat?" Lynn says, disgusted with the scores. "No way we're going to win this now..."

"Still gotta finish through, Lynn," Stacy taunts.

Lynn takes a deep sigh and trudges forward, "Alright then... let's get this over with..."

What do Lynn and Beth score?

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