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Abbey House | ??? | Third Day
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Okay, now I just need to get Kam on her own without Ran, I thought, stepping over to the cabinet. Well, if this is even worth trying to be secretive about.
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What the fuck are you doing, my brain said. Why would you ever ask for a specific person in this situation. You''re acting incredibly suspicious.
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you say anything, hm? You never even told me if your business was done or not, was I supposed to have just assumed?"
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that person, but. I can actually kind of hear what you two are saying? It''s kind of a big room, and, like. There''s no other sound in this place. Anybody else? Theo, Ran?"
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impossible- that a quantum miracle could cause me to spontaneously develop supernatural teleportation powers if I tensed my muscles and focused really, really hard.
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crazy language, and stuff. But, it sounds like maybe you''re talking about something pretty serious. And it''s kind of uncomfortable? I mean, with the whole murderer-on-the-loose thing."
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Why the hell did you think this would even work, my brain continued to scold me. That was a herculean quantity of bad decisions to have made in the space of a minute. Aren''t you supposed to be smart?
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A secret door, I suppose, hidden behind a bookcase, leading to this room - well, I guess it was more of a supply closet." I scratched my head hesitantly. "There was some regular stuff there, but also a, uh, lot of guns. Modern ones."
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say anything about it."
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really reminding me of the two big ''we''re gonna murder you'' speeches," Fang said. "I mean, there''s none of the you''re-defying-the-gods or the treating-death-as-an-actual-deity stuff, but it''s got the same vibe. All this stuff about atonement."
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now, our initial assessment bodes re-examination," Kamrusepa said. "But you can see how I came to the original conclusion!"
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knew something had happened back there, after you never brought it up again, but I didn''t think it would be this bad. How did you let Kam drag you into something this stupid, Su?"
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seems like this all connects, it doesn''t change that the first note makes no sense if taken literally. With the facts as we know them, it couldn''t have been written with all this in mind. Regardless of all else, we''re missing some bigger picture, right now."
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More shit we should have all shared," Ran muttered.
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idea of his father being weighed as a potential murderer, and sheer exhaustion.
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Can we trust Linos?'' which was a pretty good question. We knew for a fact that he''d lied to us about at least one thing to do with the order. But that didn''t, per-se, implicate him in what was going on now.
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It''s your fault too, my brain reminded me.
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grandmaster arcanist was... Well..."
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everyone''s time with.
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servant of the gods, and not a god unto itself."
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Right now, that doesn''t seem easy to separate from what isn''t, I thought.
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was was a situation to be survived. It didn''t matter what specifically was going on so long as we made it out with our lives.
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I''m curious to know why whoever is doing this would block it in some places, but not all of them, I thought, but decided it would be better not to derail the explanation with a speculative tangent.
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M a t t e r - R e p l i c a t i n g
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This must be whatever she''d waited to talk about a few minutes ago, I thought. It had to be at least potentially serious. Ran wasn''t the type to speak up to a whole group unless there was due cause.
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Wow, him too? Huh.
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Preemptive damage control for what we''re going to talk about in a few minutes, presumably. We took her hand, and she began incanting.
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T i m e - I n f e r r i n g
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bonkers, though!" Ptolema said.
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