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Today's OneWord: Switched

They had switched the cups of wine when the king's back was turned, but the young pageboy had seen it, and he dove for the high table and drank the alleged poison down in greedy gulps. As he dropped the goblet, his face turned a very furious shade of purple, before, choking, he collapsed into the hay, where the bones of the royal family's last meal still lay, gnawed at by the irritable rats that were looking for more substantial scraps.