[text] i don't find this stuff amusing any more

[bedsidemanners]

None of you made particularly good angels yesterday. A little too much righteous indignation and not enough regard for personal safety.

Let's talk about disappearances. vanishings, if you'll humor me. I'm not particular. Not only from this place, I've heard enough over the last year about that. i mean regular disappearances, supposed conspiracies and cover ups, all sorts of other nonsense. I hear there's a whole market for that sort of thing on Assiah, and thus far I don't see the appeal. Enlighten me.

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[bedsidemanners]

[quick recovery powers, activate]

I don't think so.

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[sympathyforme]

[Too late, Raphael, you lost the 'don't show emotions' chicken game they had going.]

Guess you'll just owe me then.

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[bedsidemanners]

[being propositioned by the devil will do that to you.]

I'd have thought you'd have more willing partners.

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[sympathyforme]

I'd have thought you'd be less narcissistic and delusional than taking that serious.

Wait.

No, I didn't think that.

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[bedsidemanners]

I apologize for all my shortcomings.

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[sympathyforme]

Don't start that, we'd be here a while.

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[bedsidemanners]

We already are.

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[sympathyforme]

Frustrating, isn't it?

Locked in some never-changing prison designed to be nothing but constant annoyance.

Well. For some of us it's different from home.

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[bedsidemanners]

The only frustrating part is dealing with you.

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[sympathyforme]

That what you thought when you woke up with boobs?

Or hit on the guy without boobs?

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[bedsidemanners]

Shut up.

I don't think a trip home would be in my best interests.

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[sympathyforme]

Hm.

I just realize, this is like paradise for you.

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[bedsidemanners]

It's unlike you to take such an interest in whether I enjoy this place or not.

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[sympathyforme]

I don't, just obvious now that I think about it.

You know, you're probably going to survive. No wonder you're scared.

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[bedsidemanners]

I know someone who isn't.

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[sympathyforme]

Not scared, not surviving. True.

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[bedsidemanners]

And still not wanting to remain here, either? With the Messiah and Alexiel both? Come on, surely they haven't lost their charms after only a few months.

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[sympathyforme]

Heh. I stay with him, but the City gives me no choice either way. And that's why I don't like it.

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[bedsidemanners]

That's hardly an argument when you would have done it regardless.

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[sympathyforme]

So you value the choice more than the lack of option?

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[bedsidemanners]

If you'd rather put it that way. I fail to see what's so disheartening about your circumstances in particular.

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[sympathyforme]

Nothing.

I'm not really selfish.

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[bedsidemanners]

[it's just not worth it to argue that. not today.]

But you are unreasonable.

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[sympathyforme]

How so?

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[bedsidemanners]

The longest that anyone has ever stayed in this city, at least as far as I've asked around, is about five years. That's not even an eyeblink of time.