Told them and told them not to cut the vines by the gate, and half got cut again this year. Nobody ever notices the cut side grows back and swallows the door harder.

• NurhanThey say roses are cut so they'll learn obedience. I always assumed the palace coined that. Turns out it wasn't.
  HairanYour Highness, I'm the one who coined that, actually.
• NoshibaIf the vines climb over the wall, I'll be the one to cut them.
  HairanCut with a spear tip and it never heals right, but you go on anyway.