Did you hear about the Royal Heirs?

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Lord Avgral told his footman it weren't no true birth at all... that she ain't even looked preggers before the day them babies was proclaimed!
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Ha, that old Bastard'd prolly boil them babies up for their marrow, could he git his hands on 'em! That one's a no-good warlock, always greeting shadowy types come by unholy hours.
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'tis true, I heard they weren't rightly witnessed, but she was preggers alright! I heard it from a scullery maid... them babies was born half-Orcish, and quickly hidden away for none to see!
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I heard monstrous, terribly disfigured... hidden away forever.
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That's right, but the full of it is that the mother went mad at the sight of the little monsters and threw them down the steps of the palace, bashing their little brains out. It was Avgral came around to the orphange that night and stole away two lowborn babes to take their places!
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I heard it was that they was born with tails, just like their Aunt. She binds it up beneath her skirts in public so nobody sees!
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Don't be ridiculous, them babies is blessed, born with the Red Star at its Zenith. It's a sign from Lochwar, I'm telling you!
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Mooncalves and gossips, the lot of you! Fresh rushes and strewing herbs I was bade fetch to her ladyship's chamber and I seen 'em wid me own eyes... All covered in blood and goo and wailing like bansidhes! The first a girl-child with hair of flax, the second a boy-child with hair of copper and a tiny pink cock.
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Doppelgangers, I'm sure!