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"I think we're mostly younger than Cecelia. We could ask about, like, siblings? I had one older sister. She had two kids and she's dead."

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"One older sister, dead, with two children. And three brothers. I don't know how many of them are alive, I haven't seen them in - a long time."

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"One older sister with two children. And she's dead."

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" - hah!  - I mean, I am very sorry about your dead sisters."

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Pff. Snuggle.

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"How many siblings does the fairy have, then?"

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"Six brothers. Two older, four younger. Last two are twins. All of them very smart."

He glances over at Hagan but Hagan is pretending to take a nap.

" - I do that too, when I dunno what to say."

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"You seem pretty different from each other? But I guess so do we."

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"And he's a human. It seems like it'd be very confusing and terrible, to be a human."

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"I don't enslave people!"

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" - I mean, one way of looking at it would be that I did a thing that didn't make Cecelia hate me and you did the thing that wouldn't make Imrainai hate you because she would've if you'd done my thing."

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" - that feels like really a stretch. Especially since I could've enslaved Imrainai if I were a bad person and you could've not enslaved Cecelia if you were a good one."

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"I don't actually know if that's true? You have to be entangled to go to fairyland."

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"He could've called it something else, at least."

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"Mostly don't call her my slave. Mostly just say she's mine."

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"I guess I have ever said that Imrainai is mine when suspicious people asked questions because she was Chelish."

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"I know. It's weird. I assume it is somehow meant well."

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"I actually figured you weren't following the Osirian or I'd have come up with something that was more carefully distancing like the sister-in-law story for the temple. It's just - there are contexts in which women are usually chaperoned - and people wouldn't ask so rudely if you weren't foreign but they assume things and it's the fastest way to shut them down."

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"They can't walk around museums in the middle of the day, with a kid, without a chaperone?"

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"Oh nah that was definitely because you were foreign."

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"I suppose it is technically better that Osirian women don't have to put up with this."

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"I know it's stupid. I - wish Osirion had made you feel more at home."

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"Well. I appreciate it. I'm not - that mad at you, I'm just - it's a bad situation. But I'm not sure that good situations exist."

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" - see," he says to the fairy, "if you marry her and settle down and everything's nice then Imrainai will be so surprised and I will be accordingly in your debt."

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"No you wouldn't be. - I do want to marry her and everything will be nice but this wouldn't indebt you to me."

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