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[impure_tale]

Goodness! It would seem that I named you aptly, ma chaton.

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[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

So touchy, ma chaton!

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How's the hand, Marquis? Stiff?

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Much better, actually. Everything else is on the mend, as well, so it would seem your brilliant plan didn't go over as well as you'd thought.

[soundof-drums.livejournal.com]

'My' plan? Ah, blame shifting!

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Oh don't play dumb, sweetling; who else would have thought of it?

I don't credit many other men or women on this barge with half the intelligence this would have required.

The only part I have not figured out, however: Did you write it yourself?

Playing coy now...

[soundof-drums.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't. Honestly, I'm not much of a writer. Have you seen my autobiography in the library?

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

And that is evidence of nothing, if you ask me; you have the potential and have had the time to study the style.

[soundof-drums.livejournal.com]

While I appreciate the kind words on my intelligence and writing potential, I had nothing to do with the contents of that document.

If you didn't write it, then you must have other enemies-- or, at the very least, somebody interested in stirring up some chaos, as though that doesn't describe half the Barge.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Other enemies? Who has time for more than one when they've got you?

No no, dumpling. None would have considered it and none would have had the motive.

[soundof-drums.livejournal.com]

You think you know me so well?

Your Warden and your volatile plaything aside, who here can you truly count on?

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Don't you already know, my cherub?

I've got you.

[soundof-drums.livejournal.com]

I'm hardly the most reliable individual.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

No, but you are true to your character.

[soundof-drums.livejournal.com]

And did it never occur to you that somebody else might consider just that?

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Like I said: No one smart enough has a motive.

[soundof-drums.livejournal.com]

You underestimate everybody else so much?

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

No. I can simply count the number of people who might want me dead and severely maimed on one hand and still have fingers leftover.

[soundof-drums.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I'm pretty sure the count is beyond five by now.