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 Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 2:00 am
"Being capable is not relevant. You are a woman and should never come to harm." His golden eyes landed on hers for a brief second. Without meaning to, he thought of her, the woman he had failed to protect. Meloria
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 11:25 am
"The world does not work like that," Firebolt said simply. "If it did than no one would come to harm."
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 11:44 am
"Perhaps. But it is how things work in my world. And at the moment, you are with me, so the rules to my world apply, do they not?"
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 11:48 am
"You still haven't said what you're doing here," she stated again. "What is your business in the valleys at night?"
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 11:54 am
"I'm out for a stroll. I happen to enjoy the night air."
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 11:55 am
"Why did you not simply say that in the first place?" she asked.
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 12:05 pm
Because it was none of your business. It still is not your business."
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 12:08 pm
"I'm afraid protecting the people along the border is very much my business," she said. "It is my duty to see to their safety."
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 12:12 pm
"Then your business is not with me. For if what you claim is true, then I am one of the people you claim to be protecting."
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 12:14 pm
"If your business here is peaceful, then yes, I suppose you are correct..."
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 12:24 pm
"I don't intend to hurt anyone. Perhaps frighten the youth, should they ever come to laugh, but not harm."
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 12:32 pm
"The youth in these parts is used to seeing ...unusual things..." she said solemnly.
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 12:45 pm
Sinthos frowned, feeling like a complete a**. "I'm sorry...I am just so very unused to interacting with another..."
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 12:51 pm
"Why is that?" she asked overcome with a sudden curiosity.
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 12:58 pm
"I...just have very little use for others. I have never felt as if I belonged anywhere, and others are reluctant to converse with me. So I leave them be and no one has to be hurt."
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