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[impure_tale]

I find myself in better spirits of late. Renate does not tire me so easily on her walks any longer, though they are still rather trying. I do not go into the enclosure without my cane because I will find myself leaning upon it sooner or later. The pain returns like clockwork, but not so intensely. Often in other ways, as though the small ruptures

Comments

[rayney_day]

"Traitorous bloodflow", huh?

I gotta' remember that one...

[impure_tale]

I try, Madame.

[fanged_aleera]

I miss her, but... As with one other, do not think arriving, anew, would be healthy.

[impure_tale]

We are of similar minds, cheri.

[paranoidcreator]

Like the man said, All you need is love.

[He has no idea who you are Marquis, and even then...he's Disney. All the Disney.]

[impure_tale]

And what man was that?

[paranoidcreator]

John Lennon.

[pause] The man. The beatle? Of The Beatles?

[impure_tale]

I am very likely well before their time, cherub.

[der_umgekehrte]

You sound a bit like a Malcontent. With respect and no insult to his family.

[He sounds... intrigued. Sounding like the Malcontent isn't a bad thing in the slightest. Stoshi sounded a bit like this, meandering and over-elegant, when he was in his cups... and that was never a bad thing either.]

[impure_tale]

You enunciate that word in a way that says to me you mean a specific person and not as the general term.

[der_umgekehrte]

A specific class of people at least. And one of that class. The slaves of the malcontent saint. Generally acknowledged to be filthy sinners all.

[Which might be an insult if it weren't said with such obvious fond feeling.]

Especially Cousin Stanoczk, who I knew on Aznir and a couple other places besides.

[impure_tale]

Where I come from we call them libertines.

[Private]

[expectremorse]

...what work?

[Private]

[impure_tale]

I'm a Warden, in case you've forgotten.

Re: [Private]

[expectremorse]

I hadn't.

I didn't know if you had another project.

[Private]

[impure_tale]

Also a book. You can read back to the published chapters if you are curious.