138 After Shego's Post he did some backreading.

[impure_tale]

...Paviche?

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[themostdashing.livejournal.com]

[Pavi slips past him into the room but then turns in a swift movement to look back at his face.]

Marchese, you do not look well at all.

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[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

De même.

[He chooses not to translate that; he wishes he hadn't even said that but he didn't expect to see him in a mask again. Now he chooses his words more carefully.]

I thought I dreamt you. I have not glanced at the network since yesterday morning.

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[themostdashing.livejournal.com]

[Pavi blinks and replays some of the night's more coherent moments in his head. You're late. Maybe some of it made more sense in a different context.]

Ah.

[He's really not sure how to salvage this, or even if it needs salvaging.]

You did not dream me? This is....a good thing, si?

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[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

And you might have said something yesterday. [Whether or not the Marquis is actually annoyed is a good question, because for all purposes he seems to be brushing past it into more playful territory.] I'm not at all certain my Inmate has been fed yet, because I have not been the one to do it, and now he's going to have to wait a little longer, isn't he?

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[themostdashing.livejournal.com]

[He was about to protest - he'd shown up, he'd make his presence intrusively obvious, what else could he have said? - but didn't because the conversation was taking a turn for the interesting. And...the strange.]

How is it that he cannot feed himself?

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Because he's in Level Zero, and I don't want him too comfortable. [On any other day he might have said this with a smile showing off a little more of his true character, but it is clear that no matter how pleased he is to be in familiar company, the subject angers him.]