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[hollow_king]

[You never know, he might respond to a message. If he feels like it.]

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[hollow_king]

You have keen ears.

He wasn't wounded when I saw him yesterday.

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[chillestrogue]

[EYE. ROLL.]

What'd he do to you?

Relax. I'm not going to come down and beat on you. I'm just curious.

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[hollow_king]

That would be amusing, and slightly more like any kind of 'prison'.

Nothing you would care about.

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[chillestrogue]

Just keeping in theme.

And why wouldn't I care?

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[hollow_king]

Theme for this 'prison' would likely be showing up with some sort desert.

[He doesn't think much of what he's heard of prisons but that doesn't stop him from not thinking much of the barge as a prison.]

Why should you?

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[chillestrogue]

'Desert' or 'dessert'? I know, spelling is hard sometimes. But if it's the second, I'd have to agree.

I have a vested interest in keeping your warden alive. If he's doing something he shouldn't, maybe he needs to be taught a lesson.

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[hollow_king]

I do not know, it is your ridiculous language. The generally too sweet things.

[His spelling in English is a lot better - or at least more consistent - than what he's used to in Wealdian but words he doesn't have context for tend to slide by.]

He has been given one, if he has the sense to take it is not something most teachers can control.

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[chillestrogue]

Dessert, two s's.

And that lesson was?

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[hollow_king]

I often find I would prefer bread and water, so I suppose they have some place in 'punishment'.

A matter of exchange. If something is taken, something else might be taken in turn.

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[chillestrogue]

Probably healthier for you in the long run.

You took his life, he took your freedom? Powers?

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[hollow_king]

[It's a while before he replies, because there's truth and then there's honesty. Perhaps if Cold was there he would've said 'death', which is true enough, but this form of talking doesn't feel entirely real.]

Choice.

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[chillestrogue]

Listen, I know you don't know me from Adam, so I appreciate the one-on-one here.

We talking about the choice to stay dead?

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[hollow_king]

Particularly annoying after being killed by his hands.

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[chillestrogue]

Mmn. Yeah. I can imagine it would be.

How'd you kill him? He just sort of fell over; couldn't see any external wounds, not that I went poking around too much.

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[hollow_king]

Magic.

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[chillestrogue]

Not one of my areas of expertise, unfortunately.

Was this a one-time deal, or a rotating schedule kind of thing?

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[hollow_king]

I couldn't say.

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[chillestrogue]

Where it stands now. He wakes up, you get out of Zero. You kill him again, or only if he brings you back?

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[hollow_king]

It depends on him.

Or the Admiral, I suppose.

[While he's here, he can't know for sure that Odd's heart hadn't been restored.]

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[chillestrogue]

The Admiral's not a great person to depend on.

How's the magic work?

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[hollow_king]

What's the nature of your interest in him?

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[chillestrogue]

He's a naive kid who's a few centuries behind the curve compared to his inmate. I'd like to make sure he doesn't wind up completely broken by the experience.

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[hollow_king]

Those true enough facts, not an answer to why.

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[chillestrogue]

I like him. And I sympathize with both of you.

I've been to prison, and I've been an inmate here, and I've lost the ability to make choices more than once.

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[hollow_king]

Sympathy is a bad habit.