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un: absterge | during the huntress nonsense

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Mistress. ( And why does his breath come so coarse, then reedy, then laboured? ) The dead and risen walk in the wake of —

( Yet, how to ask without impertinence? Blood of his son's blood, her ashes scattered. )

You follow the rider?

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[ A muffled sigh and a hastily bitten off comment, indistinct, then: ] Help is necessary to drive her away.

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Who helps the helper?

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Do you follow?

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( Of course. )

Between us breathes a difference.

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A beating heart.

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Do not begrudge inquiries.

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What purpose does this inquiry serve?

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Not every word intends bleeding.

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From others.

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( Why bleed, when one can kill. )

Trust in your armour. You are his aunt.

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A reassurance. Is he well?

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He will wonder, as I have wondered. Mistress, ease our worries.

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The skills I possess help in different ways than chasing the rider. Wounds do not mend themselves.

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Some did not follow willing.

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Magical influences?

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Feverish compulsions. Thralls. Enslavement.

( And softened: ) I do not ask.

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Thralls and enslavement. [ and softly, more musing than meant for his ears: ] Sometimes it feels like I never left Nightless City.

Do not trouble yourself, Hangunag-jun. I turned away before any magical influences.

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Gratitude mistress Wen was spared.

We may want for paralytic brews, in the future. For those who cannot resist the call.

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Is this to be an ongoing threat?

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Can we chance it?

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Your point acknowledged. I'll look into paralytics, as my needles will only go so far.

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Kinder, perhaps, than body binding.

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Slower moving, though.

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Efficacy, above all?


( Ruthless. )