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Random messages and thread continuations welcome here!

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noreasonneeded

Rather like if you attached bells to your feet so everyone could hear you coming.

Though I know when you get near enough to me.

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shadowthief

Preposterous. I’ve heard a rather entertaining theory about that, you know.

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noreasonneeded

About my masterful skills of perception?

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shadowthief

It’s more along the lines of, supposedly, SOMEONE has caught you saying “Hello, Inej” into an empty room. If you always do it, you’ll eventually be right, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

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noreasonneeded

That sounds like a joke Jesper would come up with because he’s annoyed he can’t sense you coming like I can.

I’m afraid I’m simply a man of many talents.

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shadowthief

I don’t know who started it, but it’s possible. Not probable, perhaps. But it’s funny.

[She still loves you, Murder Husband. Even if sometimes you really do call her name to empty rooms.]

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noreasonneeded

Clearly I’ve been giving them all too much spare time lately if they’re wasting it on creating tall tales. Though getting Jesper not to ramble is a trick even I’ve yet to master.

[He definitely does not call her name randomly waiting for her to turn up, but it’s to be expected that those who work under him at times try to poke fun at him. To be fair he’s made plenty of jokes at their expense, too.]

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shadowthief

Oh, I don’t think anyone can master that one.

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noreasonneeded

Sometimes if you give his hat a funny look he’ll get distracted for a little while making sure it’s set at just the right jaunty angle.

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shadowthief

Now who’s starting rumors?

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noreasonneeded

If it’s you I hope they’re at least profitable ones. I’d be very proud and know you learned from the best.

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shadowthief

I do know the most cunning mind in all of Ketterdam quite well.

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noreasonneeded

Now that I’ve traveled more, I might even include Ravka in that comment.

Though to be fair, I’ve mostly dealt with the political and military side of Ravka. Those often aren’t known for their intellectual prowess.

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shadowthief

You being this cocky shouldn’t be so attractive.

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noreasonneeded

I think you’re the only one who does find it appealing.

Though I’d put your mind far ahead of theirs, too.

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shadowthief

I think maybe you don’t mind that so much. A direct compliment, bold of you, Kaz Brekker. I like it.

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noreasonneeded

Keep that up and I might start to think you know me. Although annoying you sometimes has its perks, too.

I’d hate to become predictable.

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shadowthief

I like to think I do. Is that so? And what are those perks, exactly? You are many things, but predictable isn’t a word I’d use to describe you.

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noreasonneeded

For one, you now wanting to know what the perks might be.

I know better than to ask how you might describe me in turn.

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shadowthief

You’re not so clever, Kaz Brekker. Scared to know my true thoughts?

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noreasonneeded

I’m annoyingly clever, Inej Ghafa.

[Perhaps a little, though he won’t admit to it.]

Wary they might come out as a proverb.

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shadowthief

[She hates how it stirs at something in her when he says her full name, even like this. She can hear the way his inflection would ripple through her name.]

You're incorrigible.