Drabble 256

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Anansi was downstairs pacing up and down the kitchen. All of the kitchen staff, the cooks and the scullery-maids, had abandoned their posts and Anansi had been left alone. Usually he would have preferred that, but today the quiet was doing nothing to ease his mood or to help him think. Although he hated to admit it he had something of a dilemma on his hands; he needed to kill General Mary-Tzu of the Mary-Sue army, but she was too careful and too well guarded for him to get to, and his only remaining avenue was being less than co-operative.