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Excellent.

A few days later he will find a young woman he doesn't recognize bound hand and foot in his room.

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"Well, hello there," he says. "What are you for?"

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"A reward, apparently."

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"Oh, fun."

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He laughs. "Don't give me that look."

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"Yeah? Or what?"

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Five-second pain spell.

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She comes out of it looking a little shaky but still defiant.

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"Ooh, a tricky one. Let's see what you're made of."

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All the same pieces in all the same structures as any other human of her demographic, it looks like!

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Good to know.

He takes her apart and puts her back together and explores her reactions to variously targeted pain spells.

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...she likes variously targeted pain spells, it turns out.

Although she still seems understandably dissatisfied with her situation.

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Yeah, the fact that she has complaints is not a big surprise. The fact that she gets off on being tortured... well, he's not about to complain.

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This is decidedly not the best day she's ever had.

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That's just too bad for her.

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Savaross doesn't mention her at Tassairen's next lesson, although he does give him a small, knowing smile.

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In the absence of clear instructions, he decides he can do whatever he wants with her, and what he wants is to keep her in his room and torture her in his free time. He'll probably kill her eventually, but she's so much more entertaining alive.

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Kaseo finds her entertaining too.

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Oh, that's fun.

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As he calms down the rumor mill gradually calms down about him, although he's still erratic and unusual enough to be a popular topic of speculative gossip.

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He's still kind of perpetually on edge, but now he is sometimes in good moods and no longer pain-spells people for being mildly annoying!

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Then people will avoid him less assiduously.

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Acceptable.

He still misses her. Every day, waking up alone in his bed - he makes Telana sleep on the floor - he wants his Anaseverina back. He can't have her. She's gone. Nothing he does will return her to him, unless he invents resurrection.

 

...he develops an even keener interest in necromancy and related subjects.

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All materials he can find on the subject agree that even if there was theoretically something he could do about it, which there might not be, he would need her body to do it.

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