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Xua Lia, Madame Masque, was pleased. Very pleased. The sales of her masks had exceeded expectations. She did regret that she had no more of the fancy masks or the other special ones to ship out. Had she anticipated sales being this good, she would have worked harder and made more masks. Next year. There was always next year.

There were still things to do. She had to make sure other arrangements were in place. What fun was it creating these masks and not seeing her handiwork in action? She looked at the list of calls she had to made and grabbed her phone.