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[impure_tale]

Do you know I never fancied ships in my youth? I had in my delusions, as a prisoner given to an obsession with numbers, once predicted that the letters I was receiving included secret 'signals' that I would be exiled to Barbados the following fortnight. This sent me into such a passion that I wrote probably some of the most unkind letters to my wife that I had ever penned -- not of course because I loathed sunshine, just the seas and all vessels that floated upon them.

I'm tempted to suggest this one does not count. Perhaps it is the absence of any real water.

Lucius Malfoy, I am making quick work of your file. I expect that we should meet very soon, but until I have committed this information to memory, we shall have to settle for conversation here. Have you any pressing quesetions?

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[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Of course, Iago. As I have often told you, the right choice is regrettably almost never the easy choice.

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[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

Well, I wish it was in this situation.

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[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Do you think I envisioned you an easy undertaking, when the Admiral first assigned us?

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[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

I don't exactly know. I didn't care at the time and I didn't ask after.

What did you envision?

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[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

I thought of casting you as a tree in my play so that I could giggle myself to sleep over the irony.

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[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

You are very a wicked man, Marquis.

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[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

In the end I did not, as you well remember.

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[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

And I appreciate that.

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[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

I thought that you might.